Tan Sujuan
Lineage & School of Heritage
She studied flower-bamboo hat weaving under the elderly Maonan artisan Tan Shunmei and is the fifth-generation transmitter of the Maonan flower-bamboo hat weaving craft.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of Maonan ethnicity, born in September 1967 in Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. She is a representative bearer of Bamboo Weaving (Maonan Flower-Bamboo Hat Weaving), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She is a Guangxi arts and crafts master. For many years she has worked to recover and organize the traditional patterns of the Maonan flower-bamboo hat; she can skillfully use bamboo and rattan weaving to shape the hat into a clever combination of bronze drum and cone, and is especially adept at weaving such patterns as Linked Hearts, Auspicious Bird, Flowers Blooming in Four Seasons and Carp Leaping the Dragon Gate. She takes an active part in transmitting the craft, having taught in training courses for many years, and several of her apprentices have become provincial or municipal representative bearers.
Honors & Recognition
She has taken part many times in arts and crafts competitions, exhibitions and demonstration events in Guangxi and nationwide, and has won awards.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Shengzhou Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
- Bamboo Weaving Ⅶ-51
Profile
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