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Kajsiab began many years ago with just a few wooden planks to show visitors the unique handmade artwork the women from the mountains make. Soon we had a real shop; The Woman Empowerment Shop we named it, to provide help for women, right at the Daauw Home Restaurant. A few years later we built the Women's Workplace, where the local women make embroideries and other artworks, using their traditional skills and adding a modern touch.

Many workshops have been done in the past years and eventually drawing, making notebooks, painting and making embroideries are the workshops that are succesful, not only by selling them but also in making them.  The Women;s Workplace is also the center ofInformal computer classes, English conversation classes and informal talks about sexual education, raising children, healthy equal personal relationships and hygiene.

People can order the local products that the women make in the Workplace and in the Villages online too.  The women from the workplace can make  up to 50 or even 100 pieces as long as they realize that all products are unique and colors will always be slightly different. The women in the villages make unique products of which each item is different. The women from both groups mostly make bags, wall hangings, pillowcases, notebooks, passport holders, earrings,necklaces, and clothing.
Buyers of the products are mostly visitors of Daauw Home, volunteers and the group of people all over the world that is connected with Kajsiab and order online. The Women’s Workplace has tried a lot the past years and we are all proud and happy with our work, we name: Kajsiab Creations.

The women of Kajsiab Creations can generate a sufficient income with their work if you help them buying their products and save their traditional skills!

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Kajsiab began many years ago with just a few wooden planks to show visitors the unique handmade artwork the women from the mountains make. Soon we had a real shop; The Woman Empowerment Shop we named it, to provide help for women, right at the Daauw Home Restaurant. A few years later we built the Women's Workplace, where the local women make embroideries and other artworks, using their traditional skills and adding a modern touch.

Many workshops have been done in the past years and eventually drawing, making notebooks, painting and making embroideries are the workshops that are succesful, not only by selling them but also in making them.  The Women;s Workplace is also the center ofInformal computer classes, English conversation classes and informal talks about sexual education, raising children, healthy equal personal relationships and hygiene.

People can order the local products that the women make in the Workplace and in the Villages online too.  The women from the workplace can make  up to 50 or even 100 pieces as long as they realize that all products are unique and colors will always be slightly different. The women in the villages make unique products of which each item is different. The women from both groups mostly make bags, wall hangings, pillowcases, notebooks, passport holders, earrings,necklaces, and clothing.
Buyers of the products are mostly visitors of Daauw Home, volunteers and the group of people all over the world that is connected with Kajsiab and order online. The Women’s Workplace has tried a lot the past years and we are all proud and happy with our work, we name: Kajsiab Creations.

The women of Kajsiab Creations can generate a sufficient income with their work if you help them buying their products and save their traditional skills!

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Kajsiab began many years ago with just a few wooden planks to show visitors the unique handmade artwork the women from the mountains make. Soon we had a real shop; The Woman Empowerment Shop we named it, to provide help for women, right at the Daauw Home Restaurant. A few years later we built the Women's Workplace, where the local women make embroideries and other artworks, using their traditional skills and adding a modern touch.

Many workshops have been done in the past years and eventually drawing, making notebooks, painting and making embroideries are the workshops that are succesful, not only by selling them but also in making them.  The Women;s Workplace is also the center ofInformal computer classes, English conversation classes and informal talks about sexual education, raising children, healthy equal personal relationships and hygiene.

People can order the local products that the women make in the Workplace and in the Villages online too.  The women from the workplace can make  up to 50 or even 100 pieces as long as they realize that all products are unique and colors will always be slightly different. The women in the villages make unique products of which each item is different. The women from both groups mostly make bags, wall hangings, pillowcases, notebooks, passport holders, earrings,necklaces, and clothing.
Buyers of the products are mostly visitors of Daauw Home, volunteers and the group of people all over the world that is connected with Kajsiab and order online. The Women’s Workplace has tried a lot the past years and we are all proud and happy with our work, we name: Kajsiab Creations.

The women of Kajsiab Creations can generate a sufficient income with their work if you help them buying their products and save their traditional skills!

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You can order these handmade products you help us to care for the 45 people who live currently at Kajsiab, learning new skills and teaching the old traditional skills.

By ordering our products you are helping us to empower the Kajsiab People and to save our traditions!

Traditionally, Hmong embroidery is used as a form of decoration on clothing to make it bright and beautiful.  From a young age, Hmong girls learn how to sew and copy motifs from their mothers and grandmothers.
At the present time, many Hmong girls don’t have the time and/or opportunity to learn how to make paj ntaub as their elders once did. Many elders do not have time to teach these traditions to their grandchildren. For the reasons above, the Hmong art of making paj ntaub may be lost among future generations.
We at Kajsiab try to save the traditional knowledge by encouraging the women and girl to make embroideries in our Women's Workplace and sell it in our shop.

In ancient times, the embroidered patterns served double duty -- to decorate and to communicate. The women started sewing the symbols into their skirts to create messages, disguising them as patterns. Traditional Hmong embroidery used symbols to tell a story.
Most of the motifs that appear in traditional Hmong embroidery are inspired by nature and are associated with animals. A series of swirls facing each other, for example, is called "elephant foot" and generally is associated with "family." There is also the "ram horn" pattern and tiny slits that symbolize "seeds."

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You can order these handmade products you help us to care for the 45 people who live currently at Kajsiab, learning new skills and teaching the old traditional skills.

By ordering our products you are helping us to empower the Kajsiab People and to save our traditions!

Traditionally, Hmong embroidery is used as a form of decoration on clothing to make it bright and beautiful.  From a young age, Hmong girls learn how to sew and copy motifs from their mothers and grandmothers.
At the present time, many Hmong girls don’t have the time and/or opportunity to learn how to make paj ntaub as their elders once did. Many elders do not have time to teach these traditions to their grandchildren. For the reasons above, the Hmong art of making paj ntaub may be lost among future generations.
We at Kajsiab try to save the traditional knowledge by encouraging the women and girl to make embroideries in our Women's Workplace and sell it in our shop.

In ancient times, the embroidered patterns served double duty -- to decorate and to communicate. The women started sewing the symbols into their skirts to create messages, disguising them as patterns. Traditional Hmong embroidery used symbols to tell a story.
Most of the motifs that appear in traditional Hmong embroidery are inspired by nature and are associated with animals. A series of swirls facing each other, for example, is called "elephant foot" and generally is associated with "family." There is also the "ram horn" pattern and tiny slits that symbolize "seeds."

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