"Taketori Monogatari," or "The Old Bamboo-Hewer's Story," is a fascinating piece of early Japanese literature, well worth the short read. Written in the 10th century, it is one of the earliest known ...

Nendo is known for using innovative techniques to push materials to their limit. The prolific Japanese studio made design history when it introduced the Cord chair, an ultrathin wooden seat with a ...

OLD TAPPAN - Two large bamboo forests on Orangeburg Road and Grace Avenue give a bit of an exotic look to Old Tappan, but neighbors have to deal with the plant's intrusive root system encroaching into ...

It has survived time, storms and wars. But a nearly 200-year-old bamboo pipe organ, said to be the oldest in the world, is facing what may be its biggest threat yet — pop music and dwindling donations ...

An abandoned quarry can be a desolate place. Thus, Bamboo Sorcery is an apt name for the nursery the late Gerald Bol created where more than 300 varieties of bamboo flourish today. Bol moved to the ...

Submerging a bamboo slip in distilled water, Fang Beisong, back from an archaeological site, engaged in a set of procedures he's been repeating for 35 years -- brushing the slip, measuring it, ...

Buy a mattock, borrow a wrecking bar, bring out any semi-useless old saws (they’ll be heading for the dump after this), and put on a pair of thick gloves, strong boots and your oldest jeans The ...

Jennifer Fischer loves the bamboo growing in her yard. And she hates it. The source of this love-hate relationship is a thirty-foot long section of yellow groove bamboo (Phyllostachys aureosulcata) ...