Inle Weavers
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 5 Dec 2017 22:47
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Weavers We Met on Lake
Inle
 Udin, our
driver dropped us at a long, stilted house in the village of In Paw Khone where
we were met by a lady who welcomed us.
   We were bade sit and watch a lady
cutting a little nick across three stems of lotus
plants, snapping, separating and twisting the juice that appeared.
 I wondered how much sap I could pull
when I had a go with just one stem. I handed the result to Bear just as the breeze picked it up.
  The lady makes an average of fifty
metres of yarn a day and once made into scarves
retails for five times that of silk. We left this lady to her day-long task.
  The rest of the room was taken up with
looms, we saw our first lotus
thread scarf in progress.
 Fancy having to set this little lot
up, so complex.
  The next loom was making a
lovely piece of silk.
 A huge loom
at the end of the room.
 Upstairs some wonderful rustic
‘machinery’.
  Another happy
worker and a stand with thread
drying.
 Looking out of the window we saw a ready supply of lotus plants.
  This lady was producing a piece of silk and we loved her stabiliser.
 Upstairs, this
young lady was incredible, working the pedals with her feet, pulling the
overhead cord that worked the shuttle, her left hand was pulling the beater and
chatting. I tried to mimic her actions and failed miserably but gave the ladies
a laugh in the process.
  We thought the
shop was way too busy to do justice to the beautiful garments and
scarves.
  Smashing to see these old beauties.
 Udin was finishing a game of table
top snooker (looked like shove halfpenny).
 We went to look at the orchid collection.
       The plants were a lovely
surprise.
  Time
to join the traffic once more. One final look back at this interesting
building.
ALL IN ALL AMAZING TO
WATCH
VERY AGILE AND
ADEPT |