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Tibetan women work at a carpet factory in Nepal. One can see an old woman woks at spinning wheel she uses Tibetan sheep wool as the raw material for the carpets. She came to Nepal in 1959. The area at the carpet factory is for spinning. After the Chinese invasion and complete occupation of Tibet in the year 1959, thousands of Tibetans fled Tibet and followed the Dalai Lama and sought asylum in India, Nepal and Bhutan. For those Tibetans, who could reach and stayed in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, His Majesty's Government has so kindly allotted some land within the Kathmandu city area for rehabilitation of the Tibetan Refugees. Among the Tibetan Refugees, there were a few skilled Tibetan carpet weavers whose main occupation was carpet weaving in Tibet. Keeping in view of this expertise a