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  • A Hmong woman sewing her traditional skirt, Ban Long Kuang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. The woven hemp fabric is decorated by batik, a wax resist technique which is the basis for red cotton applique and colourful cross stitch embroidery.
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  • A Hmong woman sewing her traditional skirt, Ban Long Kuang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. The woven hemp fabric is decorated by batik, a wax resist technique which is the basis for red cotton applique and colourful cross stitch embroidery.
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  • A Hmong woman sewing her traditional skirt, Ban Pom Khor, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. The woven hemp fabric is decorated by batik, a wax resist technique which is the basis for pink cotton applique and colour cross stitch embroidery.
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  • Yee Song, an elderly Hmong women from Ban Kok Wa village makes textile products with a cross stitch design to sell at the Luang Prabang night market, Lao PDR. The Hmong have recently settled in the town of Luang Prabang - a consequence of the government’s efforts to suppress both the cultivation of opium poppies and slash and burn agriculture, which they have traditionally practiced, and of their own desire to take advantage of the expansion of tourism, which provides an important outlet for their crafts. Using their skilful embroidering and combining the sophisticated, colourful motifs that have traditionally adorned their clothing they have created aprons, tablecloths, cushion and bed covers, slippers and more which they sell to tourists at the Luang Prabang night market.<br />
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Portrait of Yee Song,
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  • A hill farmer stitches the wool sheet containing Swaledale sheep fleece at Lodge Moor Pens, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK. In Nidderdale a group of hill farmers walk up on the Moor together to gather their sheep as a group and then shear their sheep at Lodge Moor Pens.
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  • Porpae, an unmarried Ko Pala ethnic minority girl sews her traditional costume at home, Ban Honglerk, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • Portrait of a Ko Pala ethnic minority woman wearing a traditional headdress and Hello Kitty modern sweatshirt at Pak Nam Noi market, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • Portrait of a Ko Pala ethnic minority woman wearing her traditional clothing at Pak Nam Noi market, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A portrait of a Ko Pala ethnic minority woman carrying a headstrap basket at Pak Nam Noi market, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A handmade hanging decoration made by Yao ethnic minority women for selling to tourists in Ban Nammy village, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR.
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  • A handmade hanging decoration made by Yao ethnic minority women for selling to tourists in Ban Nammy village, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR.
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  • A Bai Xing style Miao ethnic minority woman wearing her heavily decorated traditional clothing, spins human hair for use in her traditional headdress, Lao Zhai Zi village, Guizhou Province, China. 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 Oma woman sewing her traditional clothing in Ban Nam Leng, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A married Ko Pala ethnic minority woman wears her traditional costume at home, Ban Honglerk, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The brightly coloured, flamboyant costumes of the young Pala women are in contrast to the more conservative clothing of their elders. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.  Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A Ko Loma ethnic minority woman weaves ribbon on a loom outside her home which she will use to decorate her traditional clothing, Ban Lao Leo, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.  In some areas, Loma women still grow, gin and spin cotton into thread and set up their looms outdoors for weaving cotton. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A Ko Pala woman weaves home grown, organic cotton fabric on a basic loom outside her home in Ban Lao Li, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.  In some areas, Pala women still grow, gin and spin cotton into thread and set up their looms outdoors for weaving cotton. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • An Akha Nuquie woman sewing her traditional clothing in Ban Phanghok, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • An Akha Nuquie woman sewing her traditional clothing in Ban Phanghok, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A married Ko Pala ethnic minority woman wears her traditional costume at home, Ban Honglerk, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The brightly coloured, flamboyant costumes of the young Pala women are in contrast to the more conservative clothing of their elders. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • Porpae, an unmarried Ko Pala ethnic minority girl wears her traditional costume at home, Ban Honglerk, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The brightly coloured, flamboyant costumes of the young Pala women are in contrast to the more conservative clothing of their elders. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • Portrait of Porpae, an unmarried Ko Pala ethnic minority girl wearing her traditional costume at home, Ban Honglerk, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The brightly coloured, flamboyant costumes of the young Pala women are in contrast to the more conservative clothing of their elders. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • Portrait of Eupae, a married Ko Pala ethnic minority woman at home, Ban Honglerk, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The conservative clothing of the older Pala women is in contrast to the brightly coloured, flamboyant constumes of the young Pala women. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A Ko Loma ethnic minority woman weaves home grown, organic cotton fabric on a basic loom outside her home in Chalakao, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.  In some areas, Loma women still grow, gin and spin cotton into thread and set up their looms outdoors for weaving cotton. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A Ko Pala ethnic minority woman sews traditional clothing at Pak Nam Noi market, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • An Akha Nuquie woman sews traditional clothing with her young daughter by her side in Ban Nam Sa village, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • Portrait of a Ko Pala ethnic minority woman sewing outside her home in Ban Lao Li village, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.  She is wearing the Pala traditional headdress typical of the married woman of the Pala ethnic minority and plastic bead. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • A young boy embroiders a sari in Bhavnagar, Gujarati State. The girls and boys earn 300 rupees a day. The Shaishav Trust is trying to provide education and support for children in child labour.
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  • Doctors perform surgery in a state of the art operating theatre in the Medicity, Gurgaon, India<br />
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The Medicity, Gurgaon is India's most technologically advanced multi disciplinary hospital. Founded by India's leading cardiac surgeon, Dr Naresh Trehan, it will when completed also contain a medical school and 1600 beds with over 48 operating theatres.
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  • Craftsmen make costumes and props in a Mumbai workshop for the production of The Merchants of Bollywood, Mumbai, India<br />
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The Merchants of Bollywood, An Indian theatrical dance musical, charts the history of the world's largest and most prolific film industry, and is loosely based on the showbusiness, Merchant family. Seen by over two million people worldwide, the show is homage to the world of Indian cinema.
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  • Doctors perform surgery in a state of the art operating theatre in the Medicity, Gurgaon, India<br />
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The Medicity, Gurgaon is India's most technologically advanced multi disciplinary hospital. Founded by India's leading cardiac surgeon, Dr Naresh Trehan, it will when completed also contain a medical school and 1600 beds with over 48 operating theatres.
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  • Craftsmen make costumes and props in a Mumbai workshop for the production of The Merchants of Bollywood, Mumbai, India<br />
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The Merchants of Bollywood, An Indian theatrical dance musical, charts the history of the world's largest and most prolific film industry, and is loosely based on the showbusiness, Merchant family. Seen by over two million people worldwide, the show is homage to the world of Indian cinema.
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  • As Prime Minister Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street after being admitted to hospital suffering from Coronavirus, and confirming that the pandemic lockdown in the UK will continue, telling the country we are now beginning to turn the tide on the disease. A further 360 people died with the virus in hospitals today, taking the total number of deaths to 21,092, and a homemade banner has been stitched and hangs on the gates leading to a group of homes on Herne Hill in south London during the lockdown, on 27th April 2020, in London, England.
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  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress by couturier Margaret Howell in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. In close-up, the eye is drawn into the centre of focus where the buttons are held in a criss-cross stich in its four holes. There are pins in this still prototype design as it evolves from an idea on paper to an actual garment. The fine check pattern of its fabric is beautifully sewn together in this fine and intricate dress. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • An audience enjoying a dress rehearsal of ‘No Monkey Business’ by AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • D’Anne Mahlangu with Vanda the vulture during rehearsals for ‘No Monkey Business’, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • Brigid Schutz fixes Mac the Monkey’s hand before a puppet performance. Birgid is one of the directors of AREPP: Theatre for Life that provides interactive social life skills education to school children through theatre productions.  They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • Portrait of an Akha Oma ethnic minority woman wearing her traditional clothing; Ban Sala Aebe, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The Oma are one of Laos’ smallest ethnic groups with only a few villages in Phongsaly Province. Cotton growers, indigo dyers and exquisite embroiderers result in traditional clothing being both colourful and unique. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • Children from Matsie Steyn primary school, Sharpeville, Vereeniging, South Africa, enjoy the show ‘About Us – Stepping Up’, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to school children through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • D’Anne Mahlangu and Kitty Moepang, AREPP: Theatre for Life actresses during a rehearsal for there show ‘About Us – Stepping Up’. AREPP: Theatre for Life provides interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • Oswald the Ostrich with Vanda the Vulture and Mac the Monkey being played by D’Anne Mahlangu and Kitty Moepang during rehearsals for ‘No Monkey Business’, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to school children through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • Vanda the Vulture and Mac the Monkey being played by D’Anne Mahlangu and Kitty Moepang during rehearsals for ‘No Monkey Business’, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to school children through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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  • Kitty Moepang singing with Mac the Monkey during rehearsals for ‘No Monkey Business’, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
    11-arepp-1389.jpg
  • Kitty Moepang with Mac the Monkey during rehearsals for ‘No Monkey Business’, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
    11-arepp-1175.jpg
  • Vanda the Vulture and Mac the Monkey during rehearsals for ‘No Monkey Business’, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
    11-arepp-1086.jpg
  • Kitty Moepang sings with Mac the Monkey during rehearsals for ‘No Monkey Business’, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to school children through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are about to go on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
    11-arepp-1017.jpg
  • A Hmong woman accompanied by her young son, from Ban Long Lao village, make textile products with a cross stitch design to sell at the Luang Prabang night market, Lao PDR. The Hmong have recently settled in the town of Luang Prabang - a consequence of the government’s efforts to suppress both the cultivation of opium poppies and slash and burn agriculture, which they have traditionally practiced, and of their own desire to take advantage of the expansion of tourism, which provides an important outlet for their crafts. Using their skilful embroidering and combining the sophisticated, colourful motifs that have traditionally adorned their clothing they have created aprons, tablecloths, cushion and bed covers, slippers and more which they sell to tourists at the Luang Prabang night market.
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  • Delal's daughter shows a woman how to stitch. Delal is a Syrian Palestinian refugee from Damascus. She now lives in Shatila camp with her family after they fled the war in Syria. She runs workshops with her adult daughter where they teach other Syrian women refugees traditional handy craft.
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  • Delal's daughter shows a woman how to stitch. Delal is a Syrian Palestinian refugee from Damascus. She now lives in Shatila camp with her family after they fled the war in Syria. She runs workshops with her adult daughter where they teach other Syrian women refugees traditional handy craft.
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  • Delal's daughter shows a woman how to stitch. Delal is a Syrian Palestinian refugee from Damascus. She now lives in Shatila camp with her family after they fled the war in Syria. She runs workshops with her adult daughter where they teach other Syrian women refugees traditional handy craft.
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  • Delal shows a woman how to stitch. Delal is a Syrian Palestinian refugee from Damascus. She now lives in Shatila camp with her family after they fled the war in Syria. She runs workshops with her adult daughter where they teach other Syrian women refugees traditional handy craft.
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  • Delal shows a woman how to stitch.Delal is a Syrian Palestinian refugee from Damascus. She now lives in Shatila camp with her family after they fled the war in Syria. She runs workshops with her adult daughter where they teach other Syrian women refugees traditional handy craft.
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  • Delal shows a woman how to stitch.Delal is a Syrian Palestinian refugee from Damascus. She now lives in Shatila camp with her family after they fled the war in Syria. She runs workshops with her adult daughter where they teach other Syrian women refugees traditional handy craft.
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  • Blue safety netting from a Westminster construction site, blows in the breeze in central London. Hanging from a point at the top of the building, we see the texture of the netting material, its holes and folds, creases and close stitching that screens off the work being carried out behind on site. Light shines across the blue hues making the industrial place look artistic and with a modernist beauty.
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  • Blue safety netting from a Westminster construction site, blows in the breeze in central London. Hanging from a point at the top of the building, we see the texture of the netting material, its holes and folds, creases and close stitching that screens off the work being carried out behind on site. Light shines across the blue hues making the industrial place look artistic and with a modernist beauty.
    construction_netting05-28-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Having just disembarked from a Carnival Cruise ship at the port of Miami, Florida, two tourists carry and pull their baggage along to a waiting coaches that will transport them for onward journeys. Comically they also wear wide sombrero hats bought in Cancun during their vacation around the Gulf of Mexico, the destination of this popular cruise line whose base is Miami. Stitched with garish colours the souvenirs provide shelter from the overhead tropical sun though the woman of this couple chooses to hang hers over a shoulder and keeps her original hat on her head. This may be the couples' honeymoon or just a special annual holiday away from the kids or a humdrum lifestyle where the weather is far from the intensity of Florida, a favourite resort for Americans not liking foreign travel.
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  • Spectators watch an air show at North Weald in Cambridgeshire, England. A man films a lone aircraft that banks across the summer sky. The enthusiast's blue denim jacket is almost fully-covered with aeronautical badges which depict various foreign military aerobatic teams, including the Swiss, Norwegian and German squadrons, whose emblems have been stitched into the fabric. Plane spotters form hardcore groups of aviation pilgrims. Logging and photographing flying machines, they follow air displays across their own countries and the calendars of other European festivals that attract hundreds of thousands. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Boys from a Scottish scout group sit and in the departures concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. All wearing traditional kilts favoured by the Scots, the lads are en-route between Switzerland and Scotland after a week's international jamboree in the Alps. Their sleeves are filled with the stitched badges of past achievements and one reads a newspaper while the others pass away the time before their flight by watching other passengers. The kilt's are alternately red and green and historically, relate to their wearers old family clans. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Yua, a Hmong Du woman wears her traditional skirt made from hand woven hemp (cannabis sativa), decorated with batik (a wax resist technique) and dyed with indigo, Ban Vieng Hang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. The batik motif is the basis for hand stitched cotton appliqué and embroidery. Making hemp fabric is a long and laborious process; the end result is a strong durable cloth with qualities similar to linen which the Hmong Du women make into skirts, for their traditional clothing. In Lao PDR, hemp is now only cultivated in remote mountainous areas of the north.
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  • Yua, a Hmong Du woman wears her traditional skirt made from hand woven hemp (cannabis sativa), decorated with batik (a wax resist technique) and dyed with indigo, Ban Vieng Hang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. The batik motif is the basis for hand stitched cotton appliqué and embroidery. Making hemp fabric is a long and laborious process; the end result is a strong durable cloth with qualities similar to linen which the Hmong Du women make into skirts, for their traditional clothing. In Lao PDR, hemp is now only cultivated in remote mountainous areas of the north.
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  • Tourists explore tourist sombrero trinket shops during their cruise ship excursion at Chaccoben Mayan ruins. Having disembarked from a Carnival Cruise ship at the port of Cancun, Mexico two excursion tourists walk towards a shop rack of the tacky Mexican hats, displayed under a tropical sun at the archaeological ruins of Chaccoben, Yukatan. Stitched with yellow edging and with a velvet top, the hats are prized by Americans on once in a lifetime vacations.
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  • Senior Machinist Supervisor, Tricia Randle finishes a red flying suit of Squadron Leader David Thomas, a pilot of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Tricia is a bespoke seamstress at Dale Techniche, Nelson, Lancashire. Every Winter, the Red Arrows place about 40 pilot suit orders and 180 blue (support ground crew) suits. Tricia adjusts her thread while the suit is complete on her work bench. The clothing factory also designs the Red Arrows badges, each requiring 15,000 stitches. All suits are made from Nomex by the Du Pont corporation, containing 5% Kevlar. Flame-retardant, they fit exactly each team member. Fourteen different measurements are taken before the first suit is cut, each one requiring approximately three metres of dyed cloth. When a suit is complete, each one is signed inside by the machinist.
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  • A tailor cuts red material for flying suits for the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. The man is a bespoke tailor at Dale Techniche, Nelson, Lancashire. Every Winter, the Red Arrows place about 40 pilot suit orders and 180 blue (support ground crew) suits. The man cuts the material while the suit is complete on his work bench. The clothing factory also designs the Red Arrows badges, each requiring 15,000 stitches. All suits are made from Nomex by the Du Pont corporation, containing 5% Kevlar. Flame-retardant, they fit exactly each team member. Fouteen different measurements are taken before the first suit is cut, each one requiring approximately three metres of dyed cloth. When a suit is complete, each one is signed inside by the machinist.
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