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For many of the weavers, the work is more than a livelihood, it is a legacy <\/em><\/p>\n Lesotho’s rich weaving industry is held together by women who learned the craft from missionaries in the 1970s. But unreliable postal services and limited government support has left gaps in training and access to international buyers.<\/p>\n Maseru Tapestry<\/p>\n \n Masetumo Lebitsa started weaving in 1975 after attending workshops run by Elizabeth Everett at Machabeng…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> For many of the weavers, the work is more than a livelihood, it is a legacy Lesotho’s rich weaving industry is held together by women who learned the craft from missionaries in the 1970s. But unreliable postal services and limited government support has left gaps in training and access to international buyers. Maseru Tapestry Follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,32350,11879,4717,1407,9990,257,254,10501,53059,6524],"class_list":["post-231601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backbone","tag-legacy","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-textile","tag-weavers","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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