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Gabu village, Wangden valley

Tibetan-sheep [photo Dan Miller]

Wangden weavers buying raw and spun wool in Lhasa

Indigo and madder dyed wool in Chetishol

Batch of Wangden with yak dzeepa-warps reproducing 18thC techniques and materials

Gabu Weavers and Dyers

Cooking madder in Wangden

Making a naturally dyed mandala meditation square in Nepal

Endless knot carpet in 100 knot per sq. inch made for Richard Zawitz's Tangletoys.com showroom

Making of an 80 knot per sq. inch Gamdrum by eye from a photograph in Chetishol

Chimbel, the head-man of Gabu village, with a portable Wangden loom

Norbu... the master weaver and dyer in Gabu village

Madder by fermentation with orange peel

Cooking madder in Wangden

Madder 80 knot per sq. inch Gamdrum, made in Wangden

Tibet made tiger design

Extra large Wangden endless knot design meditation square

Wangden khaden in madder

Wangden shemi chenzhum design

Wangden shemi chenzhum meditation square

Nepal made natural dyed 'snow lion' design

Wangden sitting sq. with shemi chenzhum [spring; source-of-teachings] design

Indigo by fermentation in the Wangden valley

Wangden khaden with shemi chenzhum design

Tiger 80 knot per sq. inch Gamdrum made in Wangden

Nepal-made natural dyed archaic mandala design

Wangden khaden with indigo zigzag

Wangden khaden in natural wool with yak hair warps

Wangden khaden with zigzag design