What’s a more fascinating are the shops where people are doing craftwork, like making rugs, doing metalwork of various kinds, sewing, fixing motorbikes, and so on. You often see the whole family sitting in the metal shops, including the small children, tap-tap-tapping away with hammer and awl working on traditional Buddhist items like prayer wheels and so on. I stopped in a shop today where a Tibetan man was explaining to some Americans about how they made some beautiful tapestries from the traditional skirts and other clothing of Tibetan women, which you can see in the picture here. I wish I could have gotten a picture of some of the tapestries that were hanging up, as they were even more gorgeous, but the overhead lightbulbs prevented me from taking a good picture of them.