Pick this thread up. Drop its pair from above. Pick up. Drop. Pick up. Drop.
Pick up. Drop. Pass the weft through. Adjust. Next row...
This action is called pallay. It is how you weave rivers, plants, flowers, animals or images of people like in this shawl. Each design is also called pallay. In agriculture, to harvest or to collect means pallay.
A shawl is used for carrying a baby, or maybe produce, or your weaving materials.
I’ve always wondered what it is like to be raised and nurtured
wrapped in such a representation of your Mother Land.
