Craft

For the Love of Making

For the Love of Making

With a love for making and Mother Earth, Shiying started senkoubou (錢工房), a made-to-order leather atelier that takes inspiration from everyday thin...

How to be a 10-year-old, again

Being Gellyvieve is being that 10-year-old again. Just like her pottery pieces, founder of Gellyvieve, Genevieve Ang, is all about breaking convent...

Victory of a Different Kind

Words associated with the Singaporean definition of success are always about career, properties and money. For Alvin Chan, who traversed the less-t...

Weaving Tomorrow's Disciples

From some angles, she mimics the disciples we see in kungfu films and apprenticeship documentaries. We learn from Si Ying, explorer and maker of ma...

Lao Sher

The changing times may have taken many things from him, but the courage to dream is not one of them. Founder of Lao Sher, an established tea house ...

When With Autumn

Against mass consumerism, modern-day women stereotypes, and traditional ways of relaxation; Autumn of WithAutumn shows us how she has come a full c...

Mould It My Way

Out on her own, female potter Lynn Teo shows us that she can turn disadvantages to advantages. Ready to impart the virtues that pottery teaches, sh...

Kombucha Adventures

After making a few early batches of kombucha using regular supermarket tea, Ping discovered the joy of fermenting single-origin teas - the complexi...

Slow and Steady

To take things slow in today's context may be the unbeaten track, but Chloe Yau is setting her eyes on the Chinese tea market, and inching her way ...

The Last First Step

Coffee champion, Andrea Tan, is setting her eyes to scale new and greater heights. Her advice for those willing to give it a shot is to simply start.

It's Always Day One

The craft of pottery goes back to day one, every day. Singaporean potter, Kim Whye Kee, returns to the same motion of throwing, firing and moulding...