"I’ve seen the elderly making felt when I was little, and I enjoy watching them performing different traditional crafts. I remember once when I was little watching my neighbor making felt, he saw me being fascinated by the craft then said to me, ‘Maybe that’s what you did in your last life time!’”

“I used to be a seamstress in a Tibetan robe shop in town. Back then when business was good I get paid well, but when bad I barely get paid. After a few years, the business did not improve, so they told me that there is no job for me anymore.”

“Now I work here at SHANGDROK where I can felt, braid, sew and knit again. I’m not a fast worker because I do things carefully. I also get nervous whenever I have to learn new things, worry that I cannot learn it right, or work too slowly. But despite my slowness, I am being valued for my work at SHANGDROK. When I came up with a complex braid pattern that only I know how to make, I would be showered by compliments and encouragements here.”