MCINTOSH - the 6th ASEAN Traditional Textiles Symposium .docx (original) (raw)

Women belonging to the diverse ethnic groups composing the population of the Lao People's Democratic Republic or Laos continue to hand weave cloth just as many of their ancestors did for generations. As weavers, women were responsible for cultivating cotton and ingredients for dyestuffs, and some practiced sericulture. Men created the tools and equipment required for each stage of production, but women as the primary producers of textiles spun or reeled thread, dyed yarns, hand-wove cloth, and sewed some of their creations into garments and other items.