Over the past 20 years, 65-year-old Xue Gailian has used pyrography－a form of intangible cultural heritage in Shanxi province－to decorate gourds and help fellow villagers make money. Two decades ago, ...

An inheritor carves a gourd pyrography piece featuring a dragon. [Photo by Li Dandan for chinadaily.com.cn] The studio of Si Chun'e, an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of the gourd ...

In the farmyard of Chaohu Village, Dawukou District, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, several plump cyan gourds with exquisite gourd crafts hank on the vines. They are owned by Tao Ruizhen. She is a ...

In the farmyard of Chaohu Village, Dawukou District, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, several plump cyan gourds with exquisite gourd crafts hank on the vines. They are owned by Tao Ruizhen. She is a ...

Traditional culture enthusiasts make gourd pyrography works at the Emin County memory museum in Emin County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 13, 2025. While showcasing ...

BEIJING, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alongside the rising enthusiasm for traditional Chinese culture, gourd pyrography in Zaozhuang City of east China's Shandong Province is catching more and more ...

This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...

Bowling Green artist and member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen Paul Buhrmester sits beside a collection of burnt gourds he crafted from dried gourds using pyrography, cutting, carving ...

Instructor Ronna Wuttke of Turtle Feathers will head a class on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on gourd pyrography. The workshop costs $45. Materials that will be supplied by the instructor include ...

There are so many things that can be done with dried gourds! It’s an art category all its own. Wearable art — pins, combs, pendants and bracelets — all can be easily made from hard-shelled gourds.