(Ma Wo is a White Miao village located in
Zhe Lang township, in the south-west of Longlin County, 18 km from Longlin in
Guangxi Province, south west China)
These photos were taken on a visit to Ma Wo
village in October 2000 during the holiday week following Chinese National
Day. The village is a White Miao village and the population on the day of
our visit was swollen by White Miao from several villages around Ma Wo turning
our visit into a festival. As it was the holiday week the men who might normally
be away from the village working were home and able to join in. There were some
Flower Miao who trekked in to join in the textile market. The villagers
were very obviously not used to seeing Western visitors and found us as
fascinating as we found them. The women had been organised to show us many
of the stages in the process of making the festival clothing - in particular the
stages in hemp or ramie production through to cloth weaving and embroidery and appliqué
sewing techniques.
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