Lead curator Marisa Yiu and designer mentee Elaine Yan Ling Ng visited Tai Ping Xiamen Artisan Workshop on 5 August, as part of a production progress visit. The visit was led by Enoch To (PR, Marketing Manager, Asia) who shared the processes of carpet making for the works of Elaine Yan Ling Ng, Polly Ho & Andy Wong, Michael Leung, as well as Julie Progin & Jesse Mc Lin.

The designers’ work challenges the traditional carpet making methods at Tai Ping in different ways. While Elaine experimented with different yarn mix to create thermochromatic, light sensitive and iridescent finishing; Polly and Andy’s work utilises different tufting and carving techniques to create different pile heights for a variety of sound absorption level; Julie and Jesse’s work combines offshoots from the carpet making process to innovate their ceramics practice; and Michael’s work challenges the preconceived idea of carpet as a two-dimensional object by creating three-dimensional objects that act as sound absorption portable objects for Haw Par Music.