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We’re heading to Lao in a few weeks and will be stopping by Thailand for a stickybeak for a few days on the way back. We have been religiously searching for green-friendly places to stay and have found a fantastic selection. We will be travelling all over the place, avoiding the tourist markets, in an effort to find exquisite handwoven textiles and hear stories from their makers. We will be sourcing organic silks and cottons in delicious summer colours to add to our upcoming summer/christmas range. On our travels we hope to encounter some home weavers such as this lady below, with whom we spoke with on our last visit to Lao. She ran a snooker hall off a dusty road on Highway 13 in Laos. After playing snooker around some chooks and a family dog, we went to pay and found her weaving. She said that she rarely buys her clothes, preferring to spend the time making her own because apparently, in Lao PDR, there is alot of time to spend. This piece is actually a flag that she is making as a donation to the local temple. She is weaving green, flat bamboo pieces in the yellow fibres, creating a temple design in the exposed pieces.

We will also be taking along donations of clothes, books and stationary to make to a local school which we do each time we head back overseas. Keep in touch to see our latest adventures, updated in our photo gallery.