I went to visit with two Vietnamese backstrap weavers here in North Carolina where I am staying with Lisa (Virag). I was lucky to get in contact with Betsy Renfrew who is working with the weavers in the Vietnamese community in Greensboro before I Ieft Bolivia for this trip and she extended an invitation. We spent this afternoon with two weavers and saw their textiles and will go to the home of one of them tomorrow to see her warping and setting up to weave.
I will blog in much more detail about this eventually but here is a sneak preview. They dressed me up in one of their traditional skirts woven on the backstrap loom for a photo. The bag on my shoulder was also woven by them. I have many more photos of the ladies, their textiles, their looms and tools...all coming soon on my blog.
