Name: Hot Tainan EP9. Furniture Manufacturing Eco Museum in Tainan
Uploaded: 2018-09-06T04:10:23.000Z
Duration: 7 min 56 s
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This is the Furniture Manufacturing Eco Museum in Tainan

Basic passive voice

This place was built by spare factories here

and it exhibits a lot of different classic pieces of furniture,

and also the ingredients of how the furniture is made.

What's really fascinating about this place is that

these pieces of furniture do not require any nails.

They use this special technique called mortise and tenon,

where you have two different parts of furniture,

And their furniture is sold all over the world and known internationally.

Can you take me on a tour around the factory here today?

there are four different parts of this factory.

We start from that corner back there and move to this corner here,

where you assemble and take care of all the details.

So right now he is gonna show me how it is all done.

This technique is called the mortise and tenon technique,

for example here you have one knob out and one hole inside,

so they can actually just stick right in and assemble.

This actually requires careful calculation

because you need the holes to be exact so that when they fit,

you actually cannot take the lid off no matter what,

the lid comes off. It's a really smart design.

Mr. Wang is telling that the smell of wood here

like we saw earlier how the lid is a lock also.

And you can have different patterns inside the box,

for example here this one has unique silver designs.

These are some different ways that they use

to assemble the pieces of furniture together.

so you see the pieces assembled together,

you can take them off, and then put them back.

What we saw earlier assembling at the factory,

Actually all the furniture you see right here in this exhibition hall

This is how furniture changed from the past to present.

So here we see the evolution of furniture in Taiwan,

we start from the Ming Dynasty when furniture was simpler back then

and then the Japanese colonization, post war,

how furniture in a typical Taiwanese household

This work was made by the leader of Ruban Craft Academy, Mr. Huang.

These chairs here are all award-winning chairs.

The first chair we saw earlier, it is made from vines.

What's special about it is that it is bent like a half circle,

to defy physics and its original structure.

This one right here is also made from bamboo.

This is the classroom used to teach woodwork.

where the technique of mortise and tenon is taught,

so there are no nails in this class, just shapes and assembling.

it's an 18-week course so it's very intensive.

Unfortunately I don't have enough time for this course,

but thankfully there is another option for me,

Besides the exhibition here at the museum,

where you can make your own things out of wood.

It's kind of just like sharpening a pencil.

now I need to work on my second chopstick.

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Hot Tainan EP9. Furniture Manufacturing Eco Museum in Tainan

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