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I founded the Piyang Workshop (located beside the Bo Ai Church in the Babu Lu village of Taitung City, address: No. 153-1, Ma Heng Heng Avenue, Taitung City). Although it is still in its early stages, I have been teaching traditional craft courses for five to six years. The establishment of the Piyang Workshop has been of great importance and inspiration to me in terms of production. Since Babu Lu village (Bao Sang) has never had a Paiwan tribe member set up a traditional craft workshop to showcase the culture of the Paiwan tribe and the wisdom and creativity of ancestral traditional crafts, the workshop essentially provides a place for tribe members to gather and express creativity. Here, I and the tribe members of Babu Lu village (Bao Sang) welcome everyone to learn about the Paiwan tribe’s eighth social group, Babu Lu village. After five years of teaching leather carving, most of my work has been leather accessories and leather bags, with few opportunities to realize my own ideas and creativity in different projects. Moreover, a friend who has a physical disability due to occupational injury often has his hands worn and torn from pushing a wheelchair. Seeing this, I felt very distressed and decided to try making a special glove for wheelchair users. Not only to increase practicality, but also to incorporate indigenous totems into this special need, so that the hands pushing the wheelchair can be well cared for, while also…