Life on the Mekong and Other Rivers

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006


Good Water Village residents are noted for their paper. Here, a woman is making a new sheet of paper. They use a mixture of bamboo, water, and other goopy stuff and spread it over a canvas and somehow it comes out paper (that's basically what I got from the conversation). This woman, in addition to having 16 kids (her husband bragged, she just sighed) was particularly adept at making paper. She could make between 4 and 5 sheets a day. There are other sheets drying in the background.

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