In a wooden house in Khoma, a village tucked into the mountains of eastern Bhutan, a woman sits cross-legged on the floor with one end of her loom strapped around her waist and the other anchored to a post. She has been weaving the same length of silk for four months. When she finishes, somewhere around month ten, it will become a kishuthara, the most prized kira a Bhutanese woman can own. It will likely be worn at her daughter’s wedding decades from now.

In a wooden house in Khoma, a village tucked into the mountains of eastern Bhutan, a woman sits cross-legged on the floor with one end of her loom strapped around her waist and the other anchored to a post. She has been weaving the same length of silk for four months. When she finishes, somewhere around month ten, it will become a kishuthara, the most prized kira a Bhutanese woman can own. It will likely be worn at her daughter’s wedding decades from now.