For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.

During the Tang dynasty, the people of Laos (then part of the Nong Sae Kingdom) were visited by Chinese merchants who admired the smooth silk fabric they created. Aware that their weaving was ...

It’s also a major motif in Lao weaving. Kiang Ounphaivong, a weaver at Ock Pop Tok, an artisan studio in Louangphabang, Laos, incorporates naga elements into every textile, just as her mother ...

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at Lao Textiles, we have done as well. One of the important distinctions is, I am a weaver. I have devoted my entire life since the age of 17 to weaving one and designing. When she and her husband ...

She hoped that by rekindling the interest in weaving, refugee women could make money. In a radical policy reversal in the late 1980's, the revolutionary Lao President, Kaysone Phomvihan, granted her ...

VIENTIANE: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has designated the Naga motif, which is commonly used by Lao women when weaving ornamental fabrics and ...

More details here. A weaver since she was 17 years old, Cassidy arrived in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, as a textile expert working for the United Nations in 1989. A year later the Laotian ...

VIENTIANE: Unesco has presented Laos’ Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism with a certificate designating the traditional naga weaving motif as a form of intangible cultural world ...