Sunday, August 15, 2010

Day 165 - Making scents - Incense

On Highway no. 6 on the way to Beng Malea Temple is a family that manufactures Incesnse sticks for a living.
This is a team consisting of Mother and daugheter and two sons.

Colourful yellow josssticks stand in the sun to dry.




Bamboo sticks are soaked in water then duster with sawdust from Capock trees.
I guess there is some sort of colouring used in the sawdust because once the sticks are takn outside into the sunlight they change into a brilliant yellow colour an dthe bamboo turns into a purple coulour.

Boy stands in the door way to the small shed where the ladies of the house dust the sticks in capock sawdust. No masks no lighting - hot dust , sweaty and dark.

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