These tall colourful joss sticks, made of sawdust and wood clay, are meant for Taoist ceremonial festivals. They are auctioned during the celebrations to fund the temples' maintenance. Eventually, devotees light up the joss sticks and pray to the Taoist god during the ceremony.
Today, Albert Tay Guan Heng is the last joss stick craftsmen of Singapore. His business, Tay Guan Heng, was founded in the 1930s and is a family-run b ...
