Heading to Laos next week with family and I've booked a half day workshop at the silk weaving textile center. An American woman and lifelong weaver (Carol Cassidy) is responsible for helping to reorganize the silk weaving trade after it all but disappeared in the last century's communist regime. There are villages there where most men fish the Mekong River while most women care for children and weave traditional Laotian motifs to sell. I'm so excited to visit a place where weaving is so prominent in peoples' lives!