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February 17th, 2014

2/17/2014

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We went to Myanmar (Burma) in December/January. The country is beautiful, and the people are welcoming and friendly. If you smile at them, they will invariably smile back at you.
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We went to a silk weaving factory in Amarapura (near Mandalay), and saw women working on the looms.
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They were doing incredibly intricate work, following a graph-paper guide placed above the weaving area. You can see the guide on the right in the photo above, and in the picture below.
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They were counting constantly, lifting up a single strand of the warp with a bobbin to create the incredibly detailed design.
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They were weaving in reverse - what you see in the photo above is the wrong side. The only way to see the right side was by using a mirror (below).
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Check out all those bobbins. These women were master weavers! There were usually two women working on each loom to make one piece of fabric.
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The weaver is wearing thanaka on her face; this skin protection is typical of most women and children in Myanmar. They believe it protects against sunburn and wrinkles. It consists of ground wood from a tree of the same name; there are various qualities of thanaka and also different stones for grinding it.
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