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Woman in Cova Lima weaving tais in 2009. Tais cloth is a form of traditional weaving created by the women of East Timor.An essential part of the nation's cultural heritage, tais weavings are used for ceremonial adornment, sign of respect and appreciation towards guests, friends, relatives, home decor, and personal apparel.
Thai people known weaving since prehistoric. Culture and society in the countryside is regarded as weaving is a woman's leisure after her main job, rice planting or farming. This is common to all regions of the country. Product development, design, pattern and color of the fabric inherited a weaver's imagination and the influence of other factors.
Divided into the five branches of the Qi (Gei), Ha, Run (Zwn), Sai (Tai, Jiamao) and Meifu (Moifau), [4] the Hlai have their own distinctive culture and customs. Traditional weaving methods of the Hlai on Hainan Island, China. The worker uses her feet to stretch the handloom.
The Ravenstail weaving technique almost went extinct after 200 years of inactivity. [9] [11] Cheryl Samuel was the first person to replicate Ravenstail weaving for revival purposes, and by the mid-1980s she had obtained permission from several Pacific Northwest indigenous tribes to revive the art to regularly teach classes on the subject. [1]
The Tai Dam (Tai Dam: ꪼꪕ ꪒꪾ, Lao: ໄຕດຳ, Thai: ไทดำ) are an ethnic minority predominantly from China, northwest Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand, the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State , Myanmar .
Responsibilities are allocated based on gender, which male is responsible for hunting, net-knotting; female, on the other hand, takes up the role of weaving. Tayal people also adheres to strict gender roles, with men practicing hunting and women practicing weaving. They also have culturally specific musical instruments and dances.
These stances are also grouped into sequences with names like "Drive the Tiger Away" and "The Fair Lady Weaving". The movements can be performed at various speeds and may be timed with breathing. There are two forms, one known as the tai chi dance that is about 400 years old, [18] and the tai chi form itself, known as 'The Form'. [19]
An example of a tie-dyed T-shirt A video about how to tie-dye. Tie-dye is a term used to describe a number of resist dyeing techniques and the resulting dyed products of these processes.