Artist opens Taiwan’s first tufting store in response to pandemic pressures
Artist opens Taiwan’s first tufting store in response to pandemic pressures
2023-10-23
Taiwan’s appetite for novel experiences and classes just keeps growing. Handicrafts and crafting classes are a big trend among younger people, who want to use their hands to calm down after a long day. Today we meet an entrepreneur who’s brought a new craft to Taiwan. Tufting is a way to make thick and warm garments or rugs. Former street performer Hans opened the country’s first tufting store in response to the demands of the pandemic. A single class in tufting is a minimum of four hours, but so far, the new craft is proving very popular.
The tufting teacher explains how you must ensure the yarn is properly threaded before starting work.
The tufting gun moves slowly through the fabric, leaving its track visible, but it’s no simple task to control its force and keep the gun stable.
Beginners often slip up because they don’t press the gun into the fabric. But you quickly get the hang of it once you get used to the feeling of the gun in your hand, the teacher says. When the shape is complete, you use a special rug glue to fix the picture and make sure the yarn doesn’t fray.
The rug is dried and then cut out and trimmed, and the piece is complete! Store owner Hans was born in 1997, and his first job was street performance.
You might have seen him bringing the house down with tricks like this in Xinyi District. But in May 2022, the pandemic hit performers hard, and Hans was left with no income, which led him to get into tufting.
Hans
Tufting store owner
I love handicrafts and making things with my hands, myself, so I thought I’d bring this thing which I saw abroad to Taiwan and give it a try. More and more people asked me about it, so I thought I’d try opening a store. There were lots of designs that we wanted to try out and we developed, and that was quite hard work. So that slowed us down a lot at first.
After many months setting up, Hans and his team finally opened Taiwan’s first tufting store. They stock more than 50 different yarn colors. The new craft has gained popularity as a soothing and relaxing hobby during and since the pandemic.
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手作體驗課程正夯 "簇絨地毯"療癒上班族心靈
2023-10-23
體驗經濟發燒，不少手作課程快速崛起， Hans原本是表演競技的街頭藝人，因緣際會下接觸到簇絨地毯，並成立台灣第一家專門店，雖然上一次課就要4小時起跳，不過仍吸引不少上班族報名體驗。
簇絨老師細心講解，確保引線器及穿線器，都纏繞好毛線後，好戲才正要開始。
簇絨槍穿過布料，慢慢移動，都會留下軌跡，不過力道和穩定度的控制，可是一點都不簡單。
初學者如果沒有將簇絨槍壓緊布料，就容易出錯，不過老闆說，熟悉手感後就能迅速上手。完成形狀後，會用地毯專用膠固定，以免毛線散開。
吹乾後，沿著成品形狀，從布料剪下，再修剪多餘的毛線，就大功告成。1997年生的年輕老闆Hans，原本其實是街頭藝人。
在信義商圈，表演高難度競技，贏得民眾滿堂彩，無奈去年五月碰上嚴峻疫情，收入歸零，讓他開始踏入簇絨的世界。
[[簇絨店老闆 Hans]]
“因為我本身很愛做手作、手工藝，然後後來想說，先把這個從國外看到的東西，進回來台灣，自己玩玩看。問的人越來越多，想說那不然試試看開一家店，就是很多規範，是我們當時去想出來、研發出來的，然後這就是比較累，剛開始時間拖得比較長。”
花了好幾個月時間，終於打造台灣第一家簇絨地毯店，還引進超過50種色號的毛線，成為不少上班族，在疫情期間，療癒心靈的新選擇。
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