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'Jiangsu Week' prominent at Astana Expo

2017-06-21

'Jiangsu Week' prominent at Astana Expo

The intangible cultural heritage representation, which was inaugurated on June 20 at Astana Expo, is likely to prove one of the highlights of Jiangsu Week.

"It was already a huge hit during our last appearance of tie-dying crafts at Milan Expo," said Jiao Huirong, a Chinese craft artist. "This time, it's only taking half a day to run out of the calicoes that I prepared for people to have a hands-on experience."

'Jiangsu Week' prominent at Astana Expo

Visitors experience the craft of tie-dying at Jiangsu Week.

Xia Dong, also a craft artist from Suzhou, Jiangsu province, shares the same feeling.

"What I want is to get our fruit pit carving, the most characteristic cultural heritage of Jiangsu, more exposed to the whole world through the Expo," Xia said.

'Jiangsu Week' prominent at Astana Expo

In addition to tie-dying and fruit pit carving, visitors to Jiangsu Week will have a chance to get to know the traditional embroidery method called disordered needlework constructed by Yang Shouyu in the 1920s.