Villagers
Wanee, the manager of Prae Pan says, "We like to show our identity. We're
a women's group, a weaving group, a natural dyes group...we're a group
that can share many things with our members. We have many beautiful products,
many products. At an exhibition in Bangkok, we sold one cover sheet to
a farang (foreigner) for ß15,000! We were proud to explain
to him that we're villagers. We can also talk with him and explain anything
he wants to know. We know about every part of the weaving process amd can
explain it very well. We can share with many different groups of people
- other villagers, students, or others. We have exchanges with many groups
and receive many visitors. Row ben chow ban. (We are villagers.)
Other groups have outsiders that work with them, but we are villagers and
we run it ourselves! We are villagers."
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