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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Nengkaman, 40, is from Qiaoqi Zang Township, Baoxing County, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province.
In 2007, Nengkaman and her husband, Atai, opened a Tibetan-style guesthouse in their home, where they hosted children on educational excursions and took them to the pastures to introduce them to nature and local life.
In 2014, she began photographing the everyday life and culture of her native region. While photographing, she discovered that the skills of yak wool weaving and the weaving of colorful Qiaoqi belts, once mandatory for local women, were gradually becoming endangered as fewer and fewer people took up the craft. She then decided to preserve these traditional arts and pass them on to future generations.
In 2016, she founded the textile workshop "Nengkaman," where she combines traditional techniques with contemporary design to create backpacks, scarves, belts, and other handcrafted items. As orders increased, she began to recruit rural women, who now have the opportunity to earn extra income in their free time.
Today, she is the city's inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage "Qiaoqi Colored Belt Weaving Technique", and her workshop has been recognized as an excellent workshop for intangible cultural heritage in Sichuan Province.
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