Osmanthus Alley Artist Village in Lukang Town has always held exhibitions and art and cultural activities. This time, the resident artist is CAI, YAN-YU teacher, a straw hat weaving craftsman. So we started our first stop of research and exploration - No. 27 CAI, YAN-YU Handmade, looking forward to getting to know Lukang Cypress Straw Hat better.

As soon as I entered the teacher's studio, I smelled the scent of rush (also known as salty grass).
We quietly admired the handmade items on the teacher's desk. Later, Teacher CAI picked up a "Cypress Straw Hat", which was very precious and rare, and began to introduce it.

Cypress Straw Hat was booming in Lukang in the early days. A professional machine is needed to plane the cypress wood into a thin slice of about 90 cm. However, due to the lack of wood, the Cypress Straw Hat has disappeared without a trace.

On that day, we were learning how to make small straw hat pendants in the workshop. We originally wanted to learn the most expensive one because handicrafts are unique. Unexpectedly, it was so difficult for us who were experiencing it for the first time.

This visit to Osmanthus Alley Artist Village was truly worthwhile.

Seven new artists debuted at Osmanthus Alley Artist Village in Lukang.

On that day, the two young girls learned the knitting techniques in the morning, so they stayed in the studio in the afternoon to knit the unfinished straw hats until the edges were finished and the straw hat pendants were completed.