When Chang was 30 years old, a Japanese friend in the lighting fixture business asked him to find someone in Taiwan who could make bamboo lampshades. But an exhaustive search turned up no one capable of meeting the Japanese maker's exacting quality standards. Chang thought to himself: "I've been weaving rush and sedge all my life. Can bamboo be all that tough to work with?"
在他三十歲那年，父親一位從事照明業的日本朋友，託張憲平在台灣找尋生產竹編燈罩的廠商，儘管他跑遍所有產竹的鄉鎮，但品質皆無法合乎日本的要求，從小就接觸編織工藝的他不禁尋思：竹編真有那麼難嗎？