Little Fabric Industrialist

December 4, 2012

I Made Karang is only 11 years old. His long, slim fingers move about skillfully on a spread of white thread. Using plastic thread, the boy weaves patterns for a sheet of woven fabric. Other timeswhen he is not weavingthis little lad helps his father, a coconut gardener. Everyday, the fourth grader has to walk for more than five kilometers through the woods to reach The House of Woven Fabrics, Bali Arta Nadi, in Sidemen village, Karang Asem, Bali

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