Today I went to stamp company as we have new issue: Year of
the Rooster. Actually this issue have been delayed. It should have to be issued
on first day of December but the designer got some problems with the copyright
of his another creation so they lated release.
The set is composed of 2 stamps showing the silhouette of a
chicken family in “Tò he” – an ancient art in Tonkin. “Tò he” is made of rice
powder with natural colors (from floral such as orange from carrots…).
The both are designed by N.Du – the same one with design of
Year of the Bufle 2008, Year of the Cat 2009, Year of the Monkey 2016.
How to create a Tò he?
To create a Tò he figurine, the craftsman needs a mixture of
glutinous and ordinary rice powders which is easily to knead into different
shapes and edible for children, bamboo sticks to plant the shaped Tò he and his
own skill in graphic depicting.[2] Modeled by the hand of the craftsmen, the
forms of Tò he figurine are drawn from animals, flowers and characters in folk
stories such as Tôn Ngộ Không, the Monkey King in Journey to the West. There
are seven basic colours of Tò he figurines which are green, sea blue, red,
purple, yellow, white and black, those colours come from rice powder mixed with
food dyes which are used to replace colours from trees or ashes in order to
ensure the edibleness of tò he.[3] In the past, tò he was steamed after being
kneaded but today the figurines are made directly from preboiled paste so that
the craftsman can reduce the time for making one Tò he figurine.[4] The paste
is made from glutinous and ordinary rice powders, it was kneaded with fresh
water before dropped in boiling water for one hour and finally dyed with food
colour.
The procedure of Tò he making requires utmost patience from
the craftsman, but almost all Tò he makers are men and there is an unwritten
law in families of Tò he craftsmen that secret in making Tò he is only passed
from father to sons and daughters-in-law, not to daughters. There are no lesson
of Tò he making, sons are transmitted the skill from their father solely in watching
and self-learning. Nevertheless, nowadays tò he making is also taught to the
handicapped so that they can live on making tò he and other forms of
traditional art.
Source: Wiki
Uncut stamps:
Specimen stamps:
20 Dec 2016 (#110430) is the first day the philatelic bureau of stamp company postmark is officially valid. But it seems that the postman didnot know that news so they chopped another postmark on my cover.
Here are 2 private maxicards. I used rooster year cards of Japan to make. They are really nice. Thank you Masako for this support.
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