Novel Vintage Workshop

Practice that stays—
entering daily life, growing with time.

Novel Vintage Workshop is where making becomes embodied.
Through hands, materials, and repeated actions,
skills are shaped slowly and steadily.

[ Bamboo Weaving Practice ]

Bamboo weaving begins with an understanding of rhythm.

From splitting and preparing bamboo to learning basic structures, the practice follows the natural properties of the material.
Each movement responds to tension, flexibility, and balance, allowing the form to emerge through repetition rather than force.

Over time, weaving becomes a dialogue between hands and material— where structure supports use, and craft settles naturally into everyday life.

Practice Intro —
Floral Pattern Trivet

Pattern, color, and material sensitivity

  • This introductory practice focuses on pattern, color composition, and material responsiveness.

    By combining naturally dyed bamboo strips with variations in strip width, participants weave a delicate chrysanthemum-inspired floral pattern.

    Through rhythmic repetition and structural clarity, the process results in a lightweight yet resilient everyday object—designed as an accessible entry point into bamboo basketry.

    Duration: 2 hours.

・Baskets Practice・

Basket making focuses on structure, proportion, and use.
Through repeated construction and adjustment, participants learn how form responds to function.

This practice emphasizes everyday objects—designed to be used, carried, and lived with.

Practice 1 —
Sea Wave Basket

Form and structural control

  • This practice introduces one of the most fundamental bamboo weaving techniques: over-one, under-one.

    Combined with knotting techniques, participants create a basket whose flowing lines resemble ocean waves—commonly known as the Sea Wave Basket.

    Through this form, participants learn how structural tension and weaving rhythm influence the basket’s concave and convex shaping, developing control over form through repetition.

    Duration: 2 hours.

Practice 2 —
Co-Edge Storage Basket

From planar weaving to three-dimensional structure

  • This practice explores the transition from flat weaving to volumetric form.

    Using the over-one, under-one technique together with the co-edge method, participants construct a cross-pattern storage basket.

    The co-edge technique—originating in Japanese bamboo craft—requires no additional materials. Instead, the bamboo strips themselves form both structure and edge, integrating weaving and finishing into a single continuous process.

    This method strengthens structural integrity while preserving material purity and visual clarity.

    Duration: 3 hours.

Practice 3 —
Hexagonal Utility Basket

A foundational structural form

  • The hexagonal structure is one of the most stable and enduring forms in bamboo weaving.

    In this practice, participants work with hexagonal patterns, learning how flat hexagonal grids transform into three-dimensional forms.

    The practice builds an understanding of structural balance, load distribution, and classic basket geometry—forming a reliable foundation for further exploration.

    Duration: 3 hours.

Material Essence Experience

  • By working directly with raw materials, participants develop an understanding of texture, resistance, and rhythm.
    This practice builds sensitivity that supports all forms of craft.

    coming soon

Novel Vintage Project

New craft emerges not from novelty, but from circulation.

the Road to Circulation
Novel Vintage is a way of thinking through time. It looks at craft not as something finished, but as something that continues—through use, repair, and reinterpretation.
By placing tradition and contemporary techniques side by side, it seeks forms of making that belong to the present moment.