These little creatures are dressed better than I am
Yan Chin-Yi and his students bring lacquer-thread work to Nanhai Road. The exhibition continues through October 18.
By Look Three Small editors · Nanhai Road, Taipei
Lacquer-thread exhibition display
2026
Teacher-and-student display at the lacquer-thread exhibition. Image published by Chien Yu-Hui (簡玉惠). Editorial use.
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Follow the gold curls to see lacquer-thread ornament take shape on different objects.
The little white creatures have gone formal: gold threads curl across their bodies. Enlarge the photograph and follow a curl, then look at how the same craft settles onto the vessels behind them.
Lacquer Craft Passed On presents work by Yan Chin-Yi and participants in the first intermediate lacquer-thread training course. The Taiwan Craft Development Association describes relief ornament built through coiling and knotting threads; Yan also takes decoration associated with temple statues onto vessels, plates and other objects.
The exhibition has been extended through October 18 on the third floor of the Taipei Contemporary Craft Design Branch. Allow ten minutes to walk from CKS Memorial Hall MRT Exit 2 to 41 Nanhai Road, then head upstairs. Monday October 12 is a closed day.
Get there
Public transport
About 650 metres / ten minutes on foot from CKS Memorial Hall MRT Exit 2.
Sources
- Chien Yu-Hui: photographs and extension ↗ — Dates, exhibition, floor and photograph
- Taipei branch visitor information ↗ — Address, free admission and opening hours
- Taiwan Craft Development Association: Yan Chin-Yi ↗ — Thread coiling, knotting and artistic practice