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  2. Hmong textile art - Wikipedia

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    Hmong women at a market in Sapa, Vietnam. Hmong Textile Art consists of traditional and modern textile arts and crafts produced by the Hmong people.Traditional Hmong textile examples include hand-spun hemp cloth production, basket weaving, batik dyeing, and a unique form of embroidery known as flower cloth or Paj Ntaub in the Hmong language RPA.

  3. Hmong customs and culture - Wikipedia

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    For a small village, it takes 3–5 days. Hmong New Year celebration itself consists to tossing balls, wearing colorful clothing, and singing Hmong traditional poems and songs. Colorful fabrics mean a lot of things in Hmong history and culture. [citation needed] This is very important to Hmong men and women because the New Year only comes once ...

  4. Hmong people - Wikipedia

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    As a compromise alternative, multiple iterations of "Hmong" have been proposed. A Hmong theologian, Rev. Dr. Paul Joseph T. Khamdy Yang has proposed the use of the term "HMong" in reference to the Hmong and the Mong communities by capitalizing the H and the M. The ethnologist Jacques Lemoine has also begun to use the term (H)mong in reference ...

  5. Hmong New Year celebration at The Sonnentag - AOL

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    The two day festival will be packed with dancing and singing competitions, an exhibit about Hmong traditional clothing and Hmong vendors selling food and merchandise. “This is the time of the ...

  6. Hmong funeral - Wikipedia

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    Women ceremonial clothing is the regular traditional Hmong Clothes but the dress is made out of a tree and the back of the shirt would have a bigger embroidery square compared to the original ones. For men they get to wear a long shirt or gown that is made from a stiff fabric along with embroideries.

  7. Thanaka - Wikipedia

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    Village girls wearing thanaka at Ava, Burma. Thanaka (Burmese: သနပ်ခါး; MLCTS: sa.nap hka:; pronounced [θənəkʰá]) is a paste made from ground bark.It is a distinctive feature of the culture of Myanmar, seen commonly applied to the face and sometimes the arms of women and girls, and is used to a lesser extent also by men and boys.

  8. Culture of Laos - Wikipedia

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    Hmong New Year, which is celebrated by Lao Sung groups. Includes traditional clothing, games, and food. “Dating games” are played where young women throw cloth balls to boys they prefer. Gambling and Ox fights are also traditional. November: Lai Heua Fai: ລອຍກະທົງ The Lao festival of lights, similar to Diwali and Loy ...

  9. Sampot - Wikipedia

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    There are two kinds of Sampot Hol, one is a wrapping skirt that uses a technique called chang kiet and twill weave. Influenced by the Indian patola, it developed patterns and techniques over the centuries to become a genuine Khmer art style. The sampot hol has over 200 patterns combined with three to five colors, yellow, red, brown, blue, and ...