India history and geography

Source: Mandala Texts: Tsharzo: Bamboo Work

Tsharzo (ཚར་བཟོ་) refers to “bamboo craft” and represents one of the various arts and crafts, which were promoted by the state Bhutan since the 17^th century.— One of the most common and well developed folk crafts in Bhutan is bamboo and cane work, known as tsharzo. Cane and bamboo products are mostly produced in areas where the resources grow in abundance. Refined cane products are well known in low lying valleys with subtropical forests while bamboo works are found in all parts of Bhutan where very species of bamboo grow.

For most refined bamboo products (tsharzo), the bamboo locally called yula is used to make utensils and vessels. The right bamboo is harvested, then sliced and inner flesh removed to create very fine thin stripes which are dyed with different colours and then woven into different artefacts. Pieces of cane are used as a structural frame to hold the woven body. The expertise to produce high quality refined bamboo containers are found mostly in the lower part of Kheng region and also Kangpar area of eastern Bhutan.

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