Ywahaung -Yun-de

It has been so long time from my last post .I am so sorry for late updates but a close member of my family has serious health problems so I could not concentrate enough to post in here.

I now found the time to finally relax a little and write more about amazing Myanmar .

I will start from where this blog stopped .Myanmar and the places around Bagan 

I will talk about Ywahaung.

I was reading about this town when I wanted to visit Myanmar.It is amazing what is happening there if you search and find out.

Ywahaung is a populated place in the country of Myanmar with an average elevation of 7 meter above sea level. 

The area is mildly densely populated with 212 people per km2!!!

The nearest town larger than 50,000 inhabitants takes about 2:30 hour by local transportation.
An estimated 3.35% of the children below 5 years old are underweight, with a mortality of 78 per 1,000 births....

Ywahaung can have strong (vi) earthquakes (on average one every 50 years), with occurrences at 5-6 Richter. 

When a strong earthquake occurs, it will most likely be felt by everybody and there is also extremely high occurrence of periods with extreme drought. 

So in a Natural Hazard scale Ywahaung should be like this..

Natural Hazards
Earthquake  40 %	Flood  0 %	Drought  100 %	Landslide 0 %	Volcano  0 %	Cyclone 0 %

I was reading those facts and wanted to visit this place that is also well known for the arts and crafts .

To reach here I had to take the bus among other people.(There is not airport close to town)

Arrived at something that one could say was the center of town. 

A lot of small kids came to see me from close since it is not very usual to see foreign people there.

  

 

I asked them and also asked around to find out where I could find craft houses since I heard those where something you should not miss there. Lacquer Ware.

That is the most popular purchase in Myanmar.Lacquer handmade crafts. 

You can imagine how happy I was to finally reach one of those craft houses.

I had to do a long road by bicycle but I did reached there.

  

 

  

I stayed there looking around and taking photos.

 

And for all of you that read this here is a brief story with photos of how this amazing art crafts are made .

Yun-de is lacquer-ware in Burmese, and the art is called Pan yun .

The lacquer is the sap tapped from the varnish tree Melanorrhoea usitatissima or Thitsee that grows wild in the forests of Myanmar the color of it is straw but turns black on exposure to air. 

 

 

To make a lacquer ware object, the crafts person first weaves a frame. 

If the item is top quality, only the frame is bamboo, horse or donkey hairs will be wound round the frame. In lower-quality lacquer ware the whole object is made from bamboo. The lacquer is then coated over the framework and allowed to dry. 

After several days it is sanded down with ash from rice husks, and another coating of lacquer is applied. A high-quality item may have seven layers of lacquer altogether. The lacquer ware is engraved and painted, then polished to remove the paint from everywhere except in the engravings.

 

 

When brushed in or coated on, it forms a hard glossy smooth surface resistant to a degree effects of exposure to moisture or heat.
After girls carve it..

Flexibility is one characteristic of good lacquer ware.

 

 

A top-quality bowl can have its rim squeezed together until the sides meet without suffering damage.

 The quality and precision of the engraving is another thing to look for.