About us

Slow down. Connect.

Jiangmen Dejian Blue Trading Center was established in 2025, rooted in Guizhou, a rich area of intangible cultural heritage in China. It is a trading enterprise with the core mission of inheriting, innovating, and promoting Guizhou's intangible cultural heritage wax printing technology. We are committed to deeply integrating the millennium wax printing process with modern life aesthetics, revitalizing traditional intangible cultural heritage and conveying the warmth and charm of Eastern craftsmanship to the world.

Core Values

Rooted in tradition, guarding craftsmanship
Wax printing is a "fingertip epic" passed down from generation to generation by the Miao ethnic group in Guizhou. Using beeswax as ink and indigo as soul, it depicts the scenery, creatures, and ethnic beliefs one by one. We have deep cooperation with the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage in deep mountain villages in Guizhou, strictly following ancient methods and techniques. From board making, wax painting, immersion dyeing to wax removal, every process preserves the essence of original handicrafts, ensuring the authenticity of intangible cultural heritage skills and the integrity of cultural genes.
Innovation Empowerment, Dialogue with Contemporary Times
While adhering to tradition, we reconstruct intangible cultural heritage aesthetics with modern design language. Transform the ice cracking texture and totem symbols of wax printing into modern aesthetic clothing, home decoration, artistic ornaments, and high-end cultural and creative gifts.
Responsibility first, symbiotic win-win situation
We take "active inheritance of intangible cultural heritage" as our mission and build a sustainable ecological chain of "enterprises+workshops+farmers". Through order cooperation and other means, hundreds of artisans in remote areas of Guizhou have been encouraged to work from home to help promote rural revitalization and cultural poverty alleviation. Each product not only carries the beauty of intangible cultural heritage, but also embodies our commitment to the inheritance of national culture and the common prosperity of traditional handicrafts.

Vision

In the future, Dejian Blue will continue to deepen the development of intangible cultural heritage IP and create a distinctive brand of Chinese wax printing culture. We are willing to work together with global partners, innovate with ingenuity, protect culture with commerce, and let the world see the profound intangible cultural heritage of Guizhou and the cultural confidence of contemporary China.
Millennium blue and white, born with ingenuity. Seeing blue, let tradition live in the present.

Anny He

Co-founder

Embracing the belief that every experience in your past shapes who you are today, Anny's journey with SlowMaking has been nothing short of transformative. From her ventures studying abroad and managing luxury retail, to traversing the diverse landscapes of China in pursuit of art and craftsmanship, each chapter has played a pivotal role in shaping her identity.

In 2021, with a deep-rooted intention to positively redefine the perception of 'Made in China,' Anny embarked on her 'Journey to the East.' This adventure led her to remote villages where she engaged in insightful interviews with numerous craftsmen and artisans, meticulously documenting the essence of traditional crafts. The profound connections made with these remarkable individuals filled her heart with joy, and she also learned traditional silk embroidery, batik and various crafts with the masters she met along the way.

Lisa Shi

Co-founder

Lisa has been a “story-gatherer” from a very young age - solo-travelling at the age of 15, she was that annoying kid on the plane who chatted up and pried into the lives of way too many strangers on transpacific flights! Nowadays, she has thankfully found better ways to channel those curiosities and has come to realize the power of craft as a means to experience and better understand a culture, its peoples and values. She has since dabbled in Korean pearl inlay, kintsugi, and her recent fascinations have brought her to study Japanese woodblock printing and Persian illumination at the The King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts (London, UK).

Professionally, she has honed her chops in the fast-paced startup world for seven years and now opting for a slower, more intentional pursuit in co-founding SlowMaking - and furthering her personal mission of fostering cultural connections through the lens of arts and crafts.