The wind from China blows through Denmark
A Shanghai University professor explains an exhibit to a guest at the exhibition.
A collection of items melding China's traditional crafting skills with modern design have gone on display in Denmark.
The exhibition "The Wind Comes From the Sea" will remain open through October 6 at the Museum of National History of Denmark in Hillerod.
The exhibits come from a Shanghai University academy of fine arts training program for handicraft masters that invited fashion designers from around the world to help develop new products.
He Hongbing, a bamboo weaver from Zhejiang Province, worked with Dutch designers Yvonne Lauryssen and Erik Mantel on lighting ideas. A Tibetan silversmith from Qinghai Province attached his work to French leather handbags.
The exhibition mainly features crafts from Qinghai Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Sichuan Province, including dyeing, embroidery and wood carving.
"The Wind Comes From the Sea" exhibitions have previously been held in Cairo, Brussels and Berlin.
"This international and open context is vital to the school's teaching pattern," said Feng Yuan, president of the academy.
The academy has trained more than 450 heritage handicraft masters and developed hundreds of products in the past three years.
Guests attend the opening ceremony of "The Wind Comes From the Sea."
Visitors examine designs which use new techniques to revitalize old skills.
Visitors scrutinise an exhibit at the Museum of National History of Denmark.
