New Pulse at the Songket Center
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
AINAL Mardiah seemed to enjoy her new job. She would carefully insert gold threads into the yarn spread on the simple wooden loom. Then she would swiftly pull a wooden rod to interweave the threads. Out of the 180-centimeter-long cloth, Mardiah had just completed 30 centimeters of fabric.
The 39-year-old woman had been doing the weaving job for a month, hence she was still unskilled. She used to peddle dry cake for a living. Then a month ago, she
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