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Photos of Weaving and Buying Rugs from Nepal and Tibet....

Rug Buying in Nepal....

Old Kathmandu from across the Bagmati River. Rafting the Trisuli River in Nepal.
Traditional architecture in Patan. Decorating the Boudha stupa (a stupa is a Buddhist shrine) for the Dali Lama's birthday.
Cleaning the sewers in the Thamel bazaar, Kathmandu.  

Rug Weaving in Nepal....

Vegetable dyeing Tibetan wool in Boudha. A Tibetan woman weaving a traditional design using vegetable dyed wool.
Weaving a Khotan design; note the graph hung on the loom. Washing Nepalese rugs. These are nasty modern designs bound for the European market.

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