The most useful travel hacks often involve ingenious ways to deal with technology while on the road. Other hacks involve clever laundry tricks, or recreating the comfort of familiar things like hot coffee. If you always stay in upscale hotels, you won’t need many travel…
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What to Buy in Uzbekistan: Textiles, Crafts and more
There’s a surprising variety of textiles, clothes, and art to buy in Uzbekistan!
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Delicious Uzbek Food
On BTSA tours we’ll sample delicious foods everywhere. Restaurants are immaculate and serve generous plates of fresh salads, skewers,dumplings, and soups…
Embroidered Randas on Guatemalan Huipiles
Guatemalan women create spectacular weaving and embroidery with colors, motifs and pattern arrangements characteristic of their communities. Stunning embroidery in myriad versions and degrees of complexity adorn their clothing, either in embellished bodices and necklines or decorative joining strips called randas…
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Suzani Embroidery from Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is famous for intricate embroidery. The word “suzani” means needlework, but the word is typically used for wall-hangings. Nowadays Uzbek women adorn jackets, pillow covers and purses with finely embroidered designs too…
Indigo Ikat Dyeing and Weaving in Northeast Thailand
Resist dyeing or ikat is known as mat-mi in Thailand and mud-mee in Laos and Cambodia. We’ll visit friends who do all the ikat steps from dyeing to binding the threads and weaving the beautiful cloth.
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How Moroccan Mosaics are Made: The Art of Zellij
The superb craftsmen behind the ancient Moroccan mosaic art of ZELLIJ are known as maallems (or Zellij artisans). They are expert masons, able to employ their painstakingly learnt wisdom and skill to design and create stunning tile work…