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  • Wearing a traditional hemp skirt, a Big Flowery Miao ethnic minority woman splices hemp, Qie Chong village, Guizhou Province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is needed for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Guizhou Province. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • Wearing a traditional hemp skirt, a Big Flowery Miao ethnic minority woman harvests hemp, Qie Chong village, Guizhou Province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is needed for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Guizhou Province. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • An elderly Romanian woman sits on a wooden bench outside her home, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. She's wearing a hand knitted green cardigan, a flowery apron, traditional footwear (opinci) and woollen socks (caltuni).
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  • Portrait of a women in a flowery swimming costume standing on the path down to the hole in the ice on the small lake Vuorilampi, Jyvaskyla, Central Finland. Ice swimming takes place in a body of water with a frozen crust of ice, which requires a hole cutting in it.  In Finland, the ice swimming tradition has generally been connected with the sauna tradition and it is not seen as an ascetic or religious ritual, but as a way to cool off rapidly after staying in the sauna and as a stress relief.
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  • Portrait of an elderly Big Flowery Miao woman wearing a traditional handwoven hemp skirt and woollen, handwoven cloak. Qie Chong village, Guizhou Province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is needed for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Guizhou Province. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A Romanian peasant farmer wearing a flowery apron throws organically grown potoatoes into a metal bucket whilst harvesting, Botiza, Maramures, Romania.
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  • A Romanian peasant wearing a flowery apron holds a bucket of sheep's milk for making cheese at the Measurement of the Milk Festival, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. The Measurement of the Milk festivals take place at the beginning of May, when the shepherds bring the flocks, which have spend a few days grazing in the hills, to meet the villagers at a clearing where the measurement will take place.  The sheep are milked by their owners, and the yield of each family’s animals measured to determine the quota of cheese that they will receive during that season.
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  • A Romanian peasant wearing a flowery apron holds a wooden washboard and a bowl of clothes for washing in the river, Botiza, Maramures, Romania.
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  • A peasant women wearing a traditional sheepskin waistcoat and flowery apron holds a ball of black wool, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers in Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • Sheep cheese in a bowl on a table covered with a plastic flowery tablecloth in a stana (sheepfold), Lunca Ilvei, Romania. Each flock of around 500 sheep is based at a stana or sheepfold, a hut in a clearing with a milking enclosure of hurdles. In Romania wool and meat are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • Interior of a home in Kim Chinh, sedge basket weaving village, Ninh Binh province, Vietnam. With Vietnam’s growing population making less land available for farmers to work, families unable to sustain themselves are turning to the creation of various products in rural areas.  These ‘craft’ villages specialise in a single product or activity, anything from palm leaf hats to incense sticks, or from noodle making to snake-catching. Some of these ‘craft’ villages date back hundreds of years, whilst others are a more recent response to enable rural farmers to earn much needed extra income.
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  • Silkworms feeding in bamboo baskets and mulberry leaves drying on the floor in an interior of a home in Chi Dong, silkworm rearing village, Hanoi, Vietnam. With Vietnam’s growing population making less land available for farmers to work, families unable to sustain themselves are turning to the creation of various products in rural areas.  These ‘craft’ villages specialise in a single product or activity, anything from palm leaf hats to incense sticks, or from noodle making to snake-catching. Some of these ‘craft’ villages date back hundreds of years, whilst others are a more recent response to enable rural farmers to earn much needed extra income.
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  • An elderly Tai Lue ethnic minority woman in the cotton producing village of Ban Nayang Tai, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR
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  • Traditional hand rollered wall in a peasant farmer's home, Maramures, Romania. These patterns are now often replaced by washable emulsion paint.
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  • Margareta Babeti, a Romanian peasant farmer holds honeycomb from the beehives in her garden, Bunesti, Romania
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  • Interior of a home in Ninh So, bamboo basket weaving village, Ha Tay province, Vietnam. With Vietnam’s growing population making less land available for farmers to work, families unable to sustain themselves are turning to the creation of various products in rural areas.  These ‘craft’ villages specialise in a single product or activity, anything from palm leaf hats to incense sticks, or from noodle making to snake-catching. Some of these ‘craft’ villages date back hundreds of years, whilst others are a more recent response to enable rural farmers to earn much needed extra income.
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  • Flowering fashion on Brewer Street in Soho, London.
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  • Man wearing red trousers and a flowery shirt interacting with his surroundings in London, England, United Kingdom. Red trousers if a fashion statement often associated with wealthy people.
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  • Wearing a flowery apron, Vivienne Mankowski, bakes scones in her home kitchen, Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Man wearing red trousers and a flowery shirt interacting with his surroundings in London, England, United Kingdom. Red trousers if a fashion statement often associated with wealthy people.
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  • A woman wearing a flowery dress looks out to sea from the promenade on 7 May 2020 in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Cleveland, United Kingdom. Since the UK government imposed a countrywide lockdown on the evening of 23rd March one of the permitted reasons for leaving home is for daily exercise
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  • Wearing a flowery apron, Vivienne Mankowski, bakes scones in her home kitchen, Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Small van, a Bedford Rascal, playfully covered in flowers painted on it's exterior. London, UK. This tiny vehicle is a little mobile workshop for it's owner. A small business on colourful wheels.
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  • Small van, a Bedford Rascal, playfully covered in flowers painted on it's exterior. London, UK. This tiny vehicle is a little mobile workshop for it's owner. A small business on colourful wheels.
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  • Small van, a Bedford Rascal, playfully covered in flowers painted on it's exterior. London, UK. This tiny vehicle is a little mobile workshop for it's owner. A small business on colourful wheels.
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