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This weaving village is known for its high quality silk cloth. We saw production weaving with fly shuttles. Some patterns used several colors, which slowed down the process a bit. In one house a man was pulling up string heddles onto the pre wound warp.

Yarns drying

Beams waiting for new warps

Fly shuttle

String heddles

Inserting heddles

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