To make black bamboo mahjong tiles, the bamboo is first dyed, then carved and painted. The black background makes the colors pop. The One Dot makes it a stand-out, with its very delicately carved flower center, with other Dots the circles within circles.

May 19, 2024 · Each tile set contains three simple suits (stones, characters, and bamboo), two honor suits (winds and dragons), and one optional suit (flowers). Below, read more about these tile suits as well as their meanings and significance in the game.

The Bams suit, with its bamboo-inspired tiles, plays a significant role in creating sequences (consecutive numbers within the same suit) and sets (three identical tiles) to form winning hands in Mahjong.

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Bamboo Tiles (Also called bams or sticks) Decorated with different numbers of little bamboo pictures, from 1 to 9. The 1 of bamboo can be one bamboo shoot or a bird. The coloring for bamboos is usually green, while 1 & 7 can be multi-colored, 5 & 9 red and green and the picture for the 1 green or multi-colored.

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Apr 14, 2014 · Craftsmen took the images that were on paper cards and carved them into the harder bamboo surface. Bamboo was cheap (perhaps even free?) and abundant. It is no surprise it appears so often on Mahjong tiles, sometimes as itself in a pot, and sometimes worked into the scenes on the tiles and boxes.

The bone and bamboo Mahjong tiles are finely carved, with long thin rounded Bams. This set was meant for export because of the Arabic numbers which are beautiful and delicate. Look at the wonderful expression on this peacock, with twelve dots on his tail.

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One Bamboo (Stick), with the image of a bird. Chinese character: 一条 /yī tiáo/