{"id":17,"date":"2026-09-21T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orentalcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/header-image-contact.jpg"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:13:53","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"  <div class=\"oc-about-page\">\r\n    <header class=\"oc-page-hero oc-about-hero\"><div class=\"oc-page-hero__copy\"><p class=\"eyebrow\">About Us \u00b7 Manifesto<\/p><h2>Rooted in the East. Returned to the simple.<\/h2><p>We believe the truest beauty of the East never shouts. It lives in raw material, patient hands, and the traces left by time.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"oc-page-hero__media\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/orentalcc\/assets\/images\/lacquer-craft.jpg')\"><\/div><\/header>\r\n    <section class=\"oc-manifesto\"><h2>Pure does not mean perfect. Pure means true.<\/h2><div><p>We work with intangible cultural heritage artisans across China\u2014masters of rope weaving, handmade paper, natural lacquer, indigo dyeing, and other living techniques.<\/p><p>Their skills are passed down through generations. Every object retains the marks of its birth: gentle knife strokes, subtle color variation, and a perfect asymmetry that a machine cannot reproduce.<\/p><\/div><\/section>\r\n    <section class=\"oc-story\"><div class=\"oc-story-images\"><div style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/orentalcc\/assets\/images\/rope-weaving.jpg')\"><\/div><div style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/orentalcc\/assets\/images\/paper-cutting.jpg')\"><\/div><div style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/orentalcc\/assets\/images\/inside-painting.jpg')\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"oc-story-copy\"><h2>Why handmade matters<\/h2><p>In a world of mass production, choosing handmade is a quiet act of resistance. It means slowing down. It means treasuring the trace of a human hand over the output of a machine.<\/p><p>It means bringing home an object that carries the memory of its maker\u2014the morning light in the workshop, the sound of fibers being twisted, and the focused attention of an artisan repeating a familiar motion yet treating each time as the first.<\/p><\/div><\/section>\r\n    <section class=\"oc-materials\"><div><h3>Rope &amp; Knots<\/h3><p>Natural fibers shaped through patience, tension, and repetition.<\/p><\/div><div><h3>Cotton &amp; Linen<\/h3><p>Natural fibers that carry dye, texture, and the marks of use.<\/p><\/div><div><h3>Mulberry Silk<\/h3><p>A fine, strong fiber with a quiet luster and cultural depth.<\/p><\/div><div><h3>Plant-Based Lacquer<\/h3><p>Layered, cured, polished, and allowed to develop patina over time.<\/p><\/div><\/section>\r\n    <section class=\"oc-quote\"><blockquote>\u201cWe let every material age gracefully. The marks of use become part of the object\u2019s story\u2014and part of the story of your life.\u201d<\/blockquote><small>Made by hand \u00b7 Rooted in Sichuan<\/small><\/section>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orientalcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}