Afghanistan's female skill of embroidery is struggling to survive.
Marjan delicately and carefully inserts a tiny needle that is threaded with embroidery silk into a piece of fabric intended to be a traditional man's shirt.
"Embroidery is part of the training that a girl should learn during childhood; mothers usually provide this training so that when their daughters get engaged, they sew a shirt for their fiancé," explains Marjan*, an embroiderer in Kandahar province who is 33 years old. She utilizes her skills with a needle and thread to support herself and her five children after her husband passed away in a bombing six years ago.
Marjan is currently teaching the following generation the art she first learned as a child. Her
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