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These woollen blankets are woven by the Gurung tribes people they are known as Rari. They are probably the oldest recorded export from Nepal. They are hand woven in strips then stitched together and are fabulously heavy somewhere between a rug and blanket. These people fail from Nathang in Sikkim. The rari has been associated with the Gurungs for centuries. It is believed that the finest quality rari is made in Rumjatar in east Nepal, where it is a cottage industry. Used to sit or sleep on or as a rug, the small, fringed sleeping-mat (burkasan) is about 70 cm X 150 cm in size; largerraris are made up from two or more panels joined at the selvedge. Traditionally, it is the women who prepare the yarn and weave the rari in their leisure hours, when their agricultural and household duties are
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