Gyantse Kadian Carpets

A 2015 report from Gyantse follows carpet makers through the work of sorting, spinning, dyeing, weaving and shearing wool into a household textile.

Carpet weavers working at upright looms in a black-and-white archival photograph from Gyantse
A 1938 archival photograph of carpet weaving in Gyantse, identified in the German Federal Archive catalogue as a weaving workshop at Pala.

Gyantse Kadian Carpets

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  1. A 1938 archival photograph of carpet weaving in Gyantse, identified in the German Federal Archive catalogue as a weaving workshop at Pala.Beger, Bruno · CC BY-SA 3.0 de Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗