One of the traditional crafts produced in Timor-Leste are tais (pronounced like "tise"). These are hand-woven fabrics, usually worn during ceremonies and sometimes you see older Timorese wearing them as their normal clothing. It's also traditional for honored guests to receive a tais the size of a scarf as part of the welcome ceremony. The woman in the picture is weaving a tais using a shuttle that she said had been in her family for several generations. We could see how smooth it was from years of use. The house was raised on stilts, and her workspace was beneath the floor.
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