The Night Market
 
Hill Tribe Street Vendors

Silk Factory

Getting Silk from the Cocoons                 Weaving Silk              

Umbrella Factory

Making Bamboo Umbrella Frames

Frames Covered with Sa Paper Drying in the Sun

Decorating an Umbrella

Sa Paper Factory

                      Sa Tree                      Pounding Bark into Fiber
(harvesting bark does not kill the tree - it grows back)

  Catching Fiber on Screen            Screens Drying in the Sun

Finished Product

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