Peacock China Imports

From small, picturesque, little-known villages including Langde, Anshun and Kaili come fascinating works of embroidered art and fabric. Brilliant in color and meticulous in detail, each product is imported directly from the Miao people of Guizhou Province…an industrious culture whose kind and gentle nature is exemplified in each of their products. Of the over 50 minority cultures in China, the Miao people (pronounced Mee-owe) are the predominant minority. Industrious and wise, the Miaos devised a way to enhance their quality of life by exporting their delicate embroidered designs.

In addition to our Miao products, Peacock China Imports brings you select items from Tibet. Paintings in spectacular oils. Sensational jewelry. One of a kind silver hand mirrors and jewelry boxes. An Autonomous Region of China, Tibet provides exceptional import opportunities!

With great appreciation for the “magnificence of the Miaos,” I am proud to offer you these unusual, soon-to-be-extinct collectors’ items…true heirlooms from the original artisans of China…and in many respects, the world. Through Peacock China Imports, I endeavor to bring to you the most desirable products of the Miao and Tibetan cultures.

Thank you for visiting, and enjoy your travels here.

Living Fabric: Weaving Among The Nomads Of Ladakh Himalaya

Living Fabric: Weaving Among The Nomads Of Ladakh Himalaya

Product Description
This is the first study of the tradition of weaving among the nomadic pastoralists of Rupshu, in eastern Ladakh. Weaving touches all aspects of life in Rupshu, where both women and men weave, each on a different type of loom. Local narrative states that the craft of weaving was bestowed upon Rupshu by the gods, and thus all feats related to it have a close connection to the sublime. This book documents and analyses the ways in which fibers, weaving, and textiles are symbolized, constructed, and experienced in Rupshu where themes such as gender, kinship, hierarchical and spatial relations find ready expression through the design and making of cloth. Through her work the author traces the relationship between livestock, weaving, social and symbolic structures in order to understand the multitude of contexts within which wool-oriented activities exist. Richly illustrated, this book will appeal to those with an interest in textiles, nomads, gender studies, and the Himalaya.

About the Author
Monisha Ahmed has been visiting and writing about the Himalayan region of Ladakh since 1987. She is co-founder of the Ladakh Arts and Multi-cultural Outreach Trust, a non-government organization that works with the arts in Ladakh and is in the process of establishing a locally based arts resource center in Leh.