Samarahan Food & Culture Festival offers handicraft too
KOTA SAMARAHAN: Besides food stalls, there are also booths offering handicrafts and other products at the Samarahan Food & Culture Festival 2022. One of the participants, Wini Copper, 43, sells bead products at the festival which is being held at The Summer Shopping Mall here from Dec 10 to 16. This Bidayuh entrepreneur from MmCollectionSarawak […]
Atelier Chim — From engineering to leathercrafting
What started as a mere hobby turned into serious business for leather artisan Chim Yee Hui as she took a leap of faith and quit her day job as an engineer to pursue leathercrafting. After several years of perfecting her craft in Kuala Lumpur and France, she returned to Kuching and started her own business, […]
Nursing graduate sells crochet handbags
KUCHING: Where there’s a will, there’s a way. This proverb is certainly true in the case of Susan Giro, 34. Before she lived with her sister who is a good knitter, the Penan housewife did not know how to crochet. “From her, I learnt how to crochet and produce some crocheted craft items such as […]
Sticking it out with handmade songkok
BY ZARINA ABDULLAH KUCHING: It is a tradition for many Malay boys and men to wear songkok (traditional headgear) as complementary accessories for the celebration of Hari Raya. Not many people know that songkok was once produced through traditional methods and has its own value and aesthetics. However, today most of the songkok sold in […]
Soap, face masks for needy from Hope Place
KUCHING: Charity body Hope Place will distribute handmade soaps and face masks to families under its care. ‘Solution For Life’, a joint-venture project between Hope Place, Hilton Kuching and Eco Lab, has produced many handmade soaps since last year. “Hope Place will give out the soaps to the needy, including face masks donated by Affin […]
Grandma shot, grandsons arrested
SERIAN: An air rifle made using information on YouTube went off and injured a senior citizen here last Monday. According to Serian District Police chief DSP Aswandy Anis, the accident happened about 11.30am. He said a woman complainant heard a gunshot coming from the backyard of her house. She went to see what it was […]
