The Slow Road
Two Women Wandering the World
Painting on silk
A finished painting
The steps of layering laquer and gilding on a wooden Buddha statue
Laquered tiles
Hammering designs in reverse in metal
The finished metal designs decorate carved elephants
A useful sign in the workshops
Stages of carving in soapstone
Traditional designs on the wall in the carving workshop
Wood carving is traditionally a male art, but some women are learning it
The master carver in the woodshop
Finished stone statues for sale
A few km outside Siem Reap is the artisan group's silk producing workshop
Young silk worms eating leaves from mulberry trees
Silk cocoons drying in the sun (each cocoon is formed from a single thread wrapped around and around)
Cambodia is known for its unusual yellow cocoons (and thus yellow silk thread)
Boiling the cocoons allows the sticky thread to be pulled out and wound without breaking
Old bike tires repurposed as machines for winding threads onto bobbins
Tying the delicate silk threads onto the loom ("warping")
Warping is a painstaking process with threads as thin as a human hair
Some threads are tied in plastic before dying to create a multicolored, tie-dye effect
Weaving the silk thread
This flowered pattern is traditional for Cambodian royalty
This pattern is made with tie-dyed threads
An old photo of a Cambodian hill tribe that traditionally dressed in silk fabric
Masks for traditional Cambodian dances
Modern apsara dancers recreating the dances shown in carvings at Angkor Wat
A traditional folk dance that uses fish traps and baskets as props
Hanoman, the white monkey general from Hindu mythology
A harvest ritual dance
