Weaving new life into a dying art

Making bamboo blinds by hand is a dying craft as there are few apprentices who want to learn the skills. Photo: Low Boon Tat/The Star

Signboard maker Loh Chee Ming will never forget the day his father, weaver CK Loh, introduced him to the art of bamboo weaving.

He was a young teenager then, more intent on getting the task over and done with than paying attention to his father’s instructions.