Nine member countries of World Crafts
Council Asia Pacific Region participated in the Asia
Pacific craft demonstration organized by Malaysian
Handicraft Development Corporation in conjunction
with Malaysia National Craft Day 2008 from 27 March
to 7 April 2008 in Kuala Lumpur Craft Complex. Craftspeople
from Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Uzbekistan,
Lebanon, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Islamic Republic of Iran
and India demonstrated their crafts-making skills.
Craftspeople-at-work exhibited their works, tools
and techniques. The areas demonstrated are natural
dye, wood inlay, felt, ceramics, stone carving, weaving,
embroidery, filigree and hand made paper. This craft
demonstration activity achieved its mission which
was to encourage craft education and to strengthen
the relationship among the craftspeople of Asia Pacific
region.