Craftswoman Looks Past Disability to Inspire Others to Get Creative with Tree Bark

Chris McMillan
Sep 15, 2024
1 min read

China Daily

27th August 202

Drawing her inspiration from nature, 60-year-old Li Shuying from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, breathes new life to birch bark by crafting them into vivid animals, ancient Chinese beauties and breathtaking landscape paintings.

From Bailang Town in Arxan City of the region's Hinggan League — an area famous for its lush birch forests—Li has created artworks with birch bark for decades. She collects the bark from dead birch trees or those that fall naturally, cuts the bark into shapes and creatively pieces them together.

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