Yangon Post

This man lives in a town called Marble Or "Sagyin" in Burmese. The town is in the shadows of a huge marble mountain. Everybody in the region works in the...

Who gets the last brownie? Or more likely in Burma, the last piece of jaggery? You remember the scene in Notting Hill, where the characters compete over who has the saddest life....

Meet Pann Nann Ein Our embroidered star decorations are made by Pann Nann Ein, a social enterprise based in Yangon, Burma which enables people with disabilities to use their creative...

Did you know that the Burmese are more into tea than we are? Or that our furniture is made from old Burmese buildings? Or that there are 3000 miles of...

Why Monsoon? Well, they're made from Rain Wood, and we wanted to pay tribute to the power of Burma's magnificent monsoon season. Each day from June to October, the heat...

In June, we visited one of our carpentry workshops near Bago in Burma, and made this video while we were there of one of our salad bowls coming to life....

How do we support our makers within the most challenging of contexts? We have recently launched our HRDD & Environmental Sustainability Manifesto to walk you through it. 

This is Aung Myat Lin and Jack from IDEA Woodsmith. They've been reclaiming teak from downtown Yangon buildings since 1999. Well, that's not quite true. They're too young for that,...

This is a new collection that celebrates three ideas close to our heart: 1 - homegrown, sustainable, reclaimed materials 2 - timeless design 3 - IDEA Woodsmith, an extremely skilled carpentry...

Isn't craft gluing and sticking with loo rolls and lolly pop sticks? Crotchet? Well yes, but it's also a huge and vital pillar of employment across the globe which has...

We know we're meant to care. Meant to value the artisanal over the factory-made. Are somehow afforded greater social worth for eschewing the mechanised, for chewing on hand-kneaded sourdough. But...

In a village in the Ayeyarwady region of southwest Burma, everyone weaves. Rattan – which grows voraciously in the northern Burmese rainforests, regrows rapidly once harvested and is totally biodegradable...