Priscilla Kibbee
I love to travel all over the globe shopping for textiles to add to my wearable art. I have taught quilting to school children in Nepal, seminole patchwork to seamstresses in Thailand, and jackets and embellishment to quilters in Turkey where I also served as a judge at 2 of their International Quilt Shows. I have created garments for 5 Fairfield and Bernina Fashion Shows and teach classes on embellishment and wearable art. Lately I have been leaning more toward making art quilts.
Trip to Thailand & Laos- Nan Part 7
On my last day there was a parade in front of my hotel which I could see from the balcony.
Monks, schoolchildren and marching bands.
Apparently it had something to do with celebrating the end of the Monsoon Season and the harvest.
A collection of antique shuttles on display in one of the hotel living rooms.
And local weaving.
Aside from the temples the town was rather boring post war concrete construction.
I walked just one block north from the hotel and discovered two more gorgeous temples.
A doorway to the first one.
And the Bell Tower.
Labels: Nan, Thailand
Trip to Thailand & Laos- Nan Part 6
A monk praying at yet another temple.
A beautiful gold chedhi under repair.
Gold lotus blossoms on the ceiling.
This temple was on a hillside and the dragons at the entrance were so long it was impossible to photograph the whole length.
Labels: Nan, Thailand
Trip to Thailand & Laos- Nan Part 5
Our next stop was a beautiful old teak house with weavers on the ground floor.
An upstairs bedroom. The floors were polished to a mirror like shine.
An old Singer treadle sewing machine in one of the rooms.
The old kitchen.
Then on to yet another temple.
The drum tower.
A deceased revered lama.
And beautiful doors of course.
Old prayer books in an upstairs room.
And old kitchen utensils.
A gathering of monks outside one of the buildings.
Labels: Nan, Thailand
On my last day there was a parade in front of my hotel which I could see from the balcony.
A collection of antique shuttles on display in one of the hotel living rooms.
And local weaving.
Aside from the temples the town was rather boring post war concrete construction.
I walked just one block north from the hotel and discovered two more gorgeous temples.
And the Bell Tower.
The second had definite Chinese influence.
And some of the most gorgeous dragons I had ever seen.
And what about these doors!
