usually quiz shows,
and these are often featured,
Chinese vases,
admired by all,
but these are not antiques, in fact some may be just a few weeks old, and another thing, they are not made of porcelain,
they are made by this gentleman, out of unwanted plastic playing cards that he folds, working as a mason, Zhang Kehua, of Qianjiang, Hubei Province, spent most of his life restoring ancient buildings in Jianli district, this meant that he got the opportunity to admire lost of ancient relics, his favourite of which were vases, the combination of white and blue porcelain, and the intricate patterns always appealed to him, but he never dreamed that he would one day make his own, let alone out of playing cards, the idea for the unusual art form came to him a few years ago,
after seeing a child in the streets playing with a plastic playing
card by folding it into small triangles, He realised that using this technique,
one could theoretically fold the card into multiple shapes, the first thing
that popped into his mind was a Chinese vase, so he went home and started
practising, when starting work on a project, Zhang Kehua always draws up a
blueprint of how the cards should be folded and assembled to create the desired
effect, He has created playing card vases of up to 106 centimetres tall, which
contain around 5,000 playing cards and take over a week to complete, how absolutely amazing!
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