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Off to Selangor with a TaiLeu Crew
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When our business partners in Malaysia LokaLocal suggested we may be interested in participating in the Indigenous Arts Festival in Selangor, I must admit, I had to ask where's Selangor? Now I know it's the state that surrounds the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. In a taxi only 20 minutes from KL Sentral, so we are going to Kuala Lumpur, which makes it easier when coercing my TaiLeu sewers to dance, cook sticky rice and boil natural dyes. Fortunately they jumped at the chance to travel and immediately applied for passports, so here we go! Arriving in Kuala Lumpur we were met...
Insights from a trip to America with two weavers
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In Search of the Comb
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- Tags: Kui, Luang Namtha, Muser, Travel
A morning with the Akha Phouly, from the village behind the cliff.
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- Tags: Akha, Akha Pouly, Festivals, Luang Namtha, Muang Long, Travel
Craft Forward - An Invitation from the British Council
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- Tags: artisan development, Myanmar, travel