A couple of times while I was in the village I just happened upon weavers at work. Cotton is the important cash crop here. So they grow the cotton and women work to spin it into threads which are then woven into strips of fabric. The strips of fabic are connected together to make traditional shirts or blankets. I took a weaving class in college, I minored in Art, and it was really interesting for me to see these primative homemade looms. A bit different from the looms in that college class! Also interesting that weaving seems to be men's work, spinning cotton thread is women's work. I wonder how this gets decided.
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