Janome umbrellas get their name from their pattern of a bold white circle against a strikingly colored background—such as red, blue, or purple—which is said to resemble a snake’s eye (janome). These ...

LLOYD COTSEN BEGAN what he admits has been “a 40-year love affair” with Japanese bamboo baskets when he walked into an antique store in San Francisco in the 1950s. “I was attracted,” Cotsen says, “by ...

Floors are an essential and important element in an interior design scheme. Small wonder, then, that the eye-catching patterns of bamboo flooring have been attracting attention. Made from the bamboo ...

What began as a local push to tame Japan's overgrown bamboo forests has grown into something much bigger. Today, the fast-growing grass is being transformed into everything from construction materials ...

Japan is well known for its intricately woven bamboo baskets: Japanese craftsmen and farmers have been plaiting bamboo into practical containers for thousands of years. But as an exhibition at New ...

An untended bamboo forest seen in the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Hioki in southwestern Japan, on June 16, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Unicolor Co-op) KAGOSHIMA -- In an effort to reduce plastic waste, ...