The California Native Travel Blog» chiapas http://www.calnative.com/blog Small Group Tours and Independent Adventures Around the World Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:12:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Images of the World: The Weavers http://www.calnative.com/blog/images-of-the-world-the-weavers/ http://www.calnative.com/blog/images-of-the-world-the-weavers/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:32:31 +0000 The California Native International Adventures http://www.calnative.com/blog/?p=231 Over the more than 25 years that The California Native has been traveling the world, we have accumulated a large gallery of photos that we have taken around the globe. I thought it might be fun if we arranged a series of them by subject. So here is the first in our series of Images of the World.

I took this photo of a Tarahumara lady with a shy smile, weaving a basket in Mexico’s Copper Canyon. In Mexico's Copper Canyon, a Tarahumara lady weaves a basket.
A weaver in Thailand concentrates on her work in spite of the tourist (my wife) taking her photo. A village lady in Thailand, weaves cloth while a tourist takes a photo.

In a small village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, a pretty young girl laughs as she weaves. In Mexico's state of Chiapas, a smiling lady weaves hand-made cloth.
A man in the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, prepares fiber for weaving. In the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, a man prepares fiber for weaving.
In Myanmar (Burma), a member of the Long Neck Paduang, a sub-group of the Karen hill tribes, is not inconvenienced by the neck rings she has worn since her youth. In Myanmar (Burma), a tribal lady weaves cloth.
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