{"id":520,"date":"2010-02-05T19:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/?p=520"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T00:35:58","slug":"what-are-phaa-sabai-healing-cloths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"What are Phaa Sabai Healing Cloths?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What are <i>Phaa Sabai<\/i> Healing Cloths?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Healing cloths, or in Lao <i>\u201cphaa sabai,\u201d<\/i> are &#8211; and here I quote from <b>www.hilltribeart.com<\/b> &#8211; \u201cused by both shaman and ordinary people, and use a combination of color and design for their powerful healing protection.\u00a0 These hand-woven, naturally-dyed silk shawls, usually woven with a bright-red background, have complex supplemental weft details woven on either end of the cloth, with a center area of a single, undecorated color\u2026\u00a0 Healing cloths are used in healing ceremonies, and are also used in ceremony to foster a healthy future for the village or crops.\u00a0 They may be worn by the healer, or the ill person, or even laid in the garden depending on the unique traditions of that village and the type of healing that is being sought.\u00a0 Each ethnic group, sub-group, valley, and even individual villages often have unique styles of weaving and ritual to express their spiritual lives and needs; even individual weavers have input as to a healing cloths\u2019 design elements and color.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_512\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC01702_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"size-large wp-image-512\" alt=\"Weaver modeling her recently woven Phaa Sabai.\" src=\"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC01702_2-753x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC01702_2-753x1024.jpg 753w, http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC01702_2-220x300.jpg 220w, http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC01702_2.jpg 1885w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weaver modeling her recently woven Phaa Sabai.<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>Phaa sabai<\/i> take up to two months to weave, not including the time spent raising, harvesting, processing and dying the locally-grown silk.\u00a0 Additional photos (in color!) of <i>phaa sabai<\/i> and some of the weavers of Ban N&#8212;&#8211; can be found on our website gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Phaa Sabai Healing Cloths? Healing cloths, or in Lao \u201cphaa sabai,\u201d are &#8211; and here I quote from www.hilltribeart.com &#8211; \u201cused by both shaman and ordinary people, and use a combination of color and design for their powerful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/?p=520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}