Here are few of the people that we walked with for a while. They were showing us how they carried their bags and also how they make them. They buy yarn in a nearby second hand store and then unravel it from three strands into two. They rub the two strands into a tight single string that is much stronger and easier to knit. Then they build each bag according to unique patterns that each women has in their head. The patterns are also unique to different regions in PNG. A little like Scottish plaid, we were told you can identify where a women is from in PNG based on the pattern of her handbag.
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