Woman prepares cotton skeins

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Description

Photo from Dimen Village of a woman in a traditional attire preparing cotton skeins for weaving. She twists the skeins with a wooden dowel to make the cotton stronger, tougher and smoother.

Date Created

2010-07-26

File Identifier

2010_07_26_074.MOV

Format

Video

Keywords

Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Video, Dimen Village, Artisans, Wu Meitz, 吴美芝, Crafts, Frame loom, Spinning and preparing thread, Complete women’s garment

Location

Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

Acknowledgements

Funding Provided by University of the Pacific

Disciplines

Art and Design | Art and Materials Conservation | Arts and Humanities | Asian Studies | Book and Paper | Chinese Studies | Civic and Community Engagement | East Asian Languages and Societies | Fashion Design | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts | History | International and Area Studies | Place and Environment | Race and Ethnicity | Rural Sociology | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sociology | Sociology of Culture | Women's Studies

Rights Holder

Marie Anna Lee, c. 2019

Rights Management

All images and videos provided in the Kam Minority Archive by Marie Anna Lee on University of the Pacific's Scholarly Commons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

Woman prepares cotton skeins

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