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Knit Socks KI-N-SXH
$ 12.75
Highly patterned knit wool socks. These highly patterned knit wool socks are beautiful, well made, and very warm! A fantastic gift for those who love flair! Also can be used as a Christmas stocking! Marybeth loves these and wears them as slippers! All of our items are handmade and each one is unique, expect lovely variation. Pemala Advance order recommended. Limited stock on hand.
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Fleeing from Tibet at the age of 12 with little schooling and no money, Pema-la Lama struggled to settle herself in to her new country of Nepal.
A refugee there, she taught herself to read and write in Nepali and learned how to knit and sew, all the while caring for 6 younger siblings and tending to a father dying of cancer. When Ric and I first met Pema-la in 1984 she lived with her husband Namgyal (also a Tibetan refugee, who fled when he was 1) and their baby daughter, Chimmi in a small room in Kathmandu with no water, bathroom or kitchen. They supported themselves with sales from a small shop where they sold the bags and knitwear that they made by hand…
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