The following are photographs of some of the crafts seen while walking around Kathmandu.
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| Sewing machine mechanic in a street of sewing machine repair shops |
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| Choose your teeth |
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| Repairing my bag, and he charged too much |
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| Blacksmith |
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| Thai Dye |
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A quilt maker. You pick your materials from the shop (or use old ones) then he goes to your house, measures up and makes the quilt on the premises. (He actually told me that the wooden things were musical instruments! Just as well I did not believe him and went and checked)
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| A Thanka Painter |
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| A wood carver |
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| Pottery drying in the sun |
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| The Potter |
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| The Potter |
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| Putting pots in the kiln |
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| A kiln under fire. It takes four days to dry out the pots. |
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| Putting pots in the kiln |
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| Sewing seeds onto necklaces |
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| Metal embroiderer |
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| The stampings |
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| The ladies knitting group |
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| Pounding spices |
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| Wood carver. It takes from 3 to 5 years to learn how to be a wood carver |
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| Spinning. This lady is 82 years old and has been in this place every day for over 20 years |
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| Shoe repairers with shoe laces and straps |
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| Definitely a craft |
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| A gold necklace worth about $US450. There were a number of these about the shop with no security and completely open to the road. |
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| The goldsmith |
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| Making drums |
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| A stone carver |
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| Silver and coppersmith |
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| Electrician |
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| Art Gallery |
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| Brush maker selling his wares |
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| Thai Dye |
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| An evening market |
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| Itinerant knife sharpeners |
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