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Baobei (宝贝) literally means “precious treasure” in Chinese. It's also a term of affection used for a child, a lover... someone or something you hold close.

This project, and what we found along the way, is Ziran’s Baobei. It began in 2024 with a journey through Guizhou. 

As the Founder and Creative Director of Ziran, my work has always been shaped by growing up between worlds. Of mixed Chinese and American heritage, I've spent much of my life exploring what it means to belong to both. 

Between Worlds is the origin story of Baobei: Precious Treasure ~ and of the personal thread that led me back to China, following questions of craft, heritage, identity, and what we carry forward. 

What began as a dream in college somehow became my entire adult life. I started this brand in my twenties, and somewhere along the way, Ziran grew up alongside me.

Somewhere between dreams and reality, cut and stitched, layered and reimagined ~

This is the final chapter of Weaving the Ten Thousand Things. A look at what it means to carry a legacy forward. Not as owners or authors, but as participants. We are one part, one thread,