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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