So…with our MFI (Maxima), we visit a lot of people who make a living by weaving cloth. With extant samples of hand-woven cloth dating from 5000 BC, weaving must be one of the world’s oldest ways to make money.
More than two hundred years ago, the Industrial Revolution introduced processes that, to this day, have passed by the villages and the people [...]
Preparing A Loom
December 6th, 2007 — Cambodia, Darin Greyerbiehl, Maxima from kivadarin @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Do What You Know
November 16th, 2007 — Cambodia, Darin Greyerbiehl, Maxima from kivadarin @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Phnom Penh
(Had a little trouble getting my account activated. This post is from Oct. 18th.) We now have two days of field visits under our belts. The long-awaited quest to gather information has yielded notepad pages full of facts. There is no question we’re dealing with people holding onto the lower rungs of the economic [...]
