Author: Anita Hummel
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10 Tips to Manufacturing Home Décor Products in China
Many people feel like manufacturing in China for home decor and home furnishing products may be at the end of its cycle. But the truth is that China continues to be a very viable place to manufacture home decor and home furnishing products. To be successful in manufacturing home decor products in China, you…
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10 Great Vietnamese Home Décor Product Finishes and Techniques We Love
Vietnam offers home decor companies a great source of manufacturing home decor products. They have a lot of unique techniques and finishes that other countries and places do not have. Vietnam also does a lot of finishes that are truly 100% handmade. This makes them an excellent choice for many home decor products. There are…
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7 Tips to Adding Some Sightseeing into Your Next Business Trip
If you are like me, you will find that a lot of your travel revolves around business travel, so you may travel a lot, but you do not see all the tourist sites in the places you are traveling to. But if you are smart about how you travel, you can add some sightseeing to…
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Bamboo – An Auspicious Plant For Your Home
I grew up in a home that always had a bamboo plant growing in it. My father grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with a small bamboo grove on his parent’s home property. My grandparents had lived in China for many years and always loved bamboo, so this love of bamboo was passed down to…
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About Weaving Water Hyacinth Baskets Into Home Décor Products
Water hyacinth is a weed that once clogged all the waterways around Vietnam. But despite its history, it is now considered an eco-friendly choice for weaving home decor baskets and other home decor products. Water hyacinths used to be a nuisance on the waterways around Vietnam as the water hyacinth plant grows on the water…
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What is Spun Bamboo? Using Spun Bamboo in Product Development
Spun Bamboo is an 800-year-old Vietnamese handicraft technique. Like so many home decor manufacturing techniques, spun bamboo has an interesting history and shows the Vietnamese people’s ingenuity. Spun bamboo was invented in Vietnam over 800 years ago to give a cheaper alternative to the home decor and home utensil materials that were then being used.…