Hmong Textile Arts at Harding High School http://www.hmongnet.org/class/harding99

Student Group #4

Thai Vang, Chee Vang, Zang Vang, Nee Xiong, Doua Lo r, MaiYer Vang, Paa Yang

About our group

How we made the bookmark

These two bookmarks were made by MaiYer Vang. She was taught by many of the elders, who came to the class. On the bookmarks she used the colors: red, green, orange, purple, and blue as her threads to make the designs. MaiYer chose these colors because she felt that they were the mami colors for her designs. She began her designs with the color red. She chose this color because it was bright and it brought out the other colors. She made each stitch diagonal to the others, which forms an X. The needle that she used for this kind of sewing is a one-and-a- half inch sharp one-eye needle. "This project wasn't all that hard because I have already been taught how to sew before," said MaiYer.

Ib pab laus hmoob tau tuaj qhia peb xaws paj ntaub hauv tsev kawm ntawv. Tus cim ntawV no muaj ntau tsos xov xws li: liab, ntsuab, kua taub, thiab xiav. Cov tsos xov no yoj cov nws xaiv rau nws tus cim ntawv. (Maiv Ntxawm Vaj yog tus xaws ob tug cim ntawv no.)

Maiv Ntxawm tau pib nrog txOj xov liab virn hais tias txqj xov liab thiaj ua rau neeg pom cov tsos xov ntawm nws tus cim ntawv tseeb thiab tshiab. Nws tau siv yam koob me coj los xaws cov paj ntaub tawm laug rau. Maiv Ntxawm xav hais has xaws paj ntaub yooj YIM thiab yog tias muaj neeg qhia yus xaws.

The interactions we had with the elders

In this class, the elders taught us how to sew different kinds of patterns; for example, hearts, squares, stars, circles, etc... They also taught us where on the fabric we should begin our work. Sewing with the elders was no different from sewing with our mothers and grandmothers. Besides sewmig, the elders also talked about life back in Thailand, comparing today's generation to theirs.

Cov pog laus tau qhia peb xaws ntau yam qauv paj ntaub, xws li: xaws ua lub hauv siab, ua plaub fab xwm yeem, ua hnub qub, thiab ua lub vaj voog. Kev qhia xaws paj ntaub ntawm lawv muaj ntsis zoo lis peb niam tau qhia peb. Peb tau kawm xaws paj ntaub thiab tsis tas li ntawd lawv tau piav lawv tej neej thatun lub sij hawm nyob thaib teb rau peb mloog tib si.

What I learned from "Hmong Textile Arts"

The "Hmong Textile Arts Project" taught us the different meanings of each pattern and the signigicance of the different colored threads.

Kev kawm txog hmoob tej yeeb yam xaws paj ntaub no ua tau peb tau paub txog ntau yam ua tseem ceeb rau peb hmoob haiv neeg. Peb tau kawm txog peb hmoob kev nyob kev n0i thiab lub neej thaum ub, hauv chav kawm xaws paj ntaub no.

What "Hmong Textile Arts" at Harding means to us

Having the "Hmong Textile Arts" class helped us learn about our culture and history, how creative we can be by the sewing we do, and also the other ethnic groups will have an idea of who the Hmong are and what they do.

Kawm txog Hfnoob kev xaws ua paj ntaub ua kom peb paub txog kev sibhlub sibpab, thiab txog lub neej puag thaud. Peb muaj" tswv yuin xaws ntau yam 11 ntawd, luag lwm haiv neeg thiaj paub txog neeg Hmoob thiab peb tej kev txawj.