Stock Photo - <i>Kunaa</i> weaving is an exclusively female occupation. The women of Gadu cross regularly to the neighbouring island of Gan where they harvest an especially resilient grass known as <i>hau</i>. This is then coloured with a variety of natural dyes before being woven into traditional designs on a simple loom.<br/><br/> The designs are traditional, handed down from mother to daughter from generation to generation. By the mid-17th century so prized had Gadu <i>kunaa</i> become in the neighbouring Indian Ocean region that they were sent as part of the annual tribute from the Maldivian Sultan to the Kingdom of Sri Lanka.

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