The BriefThe Hmong use story cloths to document the history of their people and culture.The first Hmong story cloths were first created by people in Thai refugee camps.One of the most popular topics ...
MANITOWOC - In every culture, clothing is an important piece of heritage — from the material and the colors, to the embroidery and beads, clothing can tell a whole story. For Hmong Americans, clothing ...
Editor's Note: This is the second story in a two-part series about Hmong families living in the Twin Ports. The first story was published in the Dec. 1 issue of the Budgeteer News. It took one year ...
Hmong textile researcher and scholar Pachia Lucy Vang of Sacramento tells some of the fascinating stories behind Hmong textiles. The dolls were a seemingly trivial loss in the larger scheme of what ...
FRESNO, Calif. -- It's been 46 years since Hmong people first began migrating to the U.S. from Laos and Thailand. Today, the Fresno area has the second-largest Hmong population in the country behind ...
The Hmong community is celebrating a major milestone this week, marking 50 years of Hmong New Year celebrations in the ...
The University’s history department is making a little history of its own. That’s because University history professor Mai Na Lee developed and still instructs the first Hmong history course in the ...
This month, six Walser dealerships across the suburbs of Minneapolis are home to more than just sparkling new vehicles. Ten mannequins with colorful dresses, sometimes beaded, sometimes mostly indigo, ...
Thousands of Hmong community members gathered at Cal Expo this weekend to celebrate the Sacramento Hmong New Year festival, an annual cultural celebration in the city with the second-largest Hmong ...
Wisconsin will now require K-12 public schools to teach Asian American and Hmong history, following a bill the state’s governor signed into law Thursday. “The Hmong and Asian American communities are ...
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Hmong Story Cloth: Preserving history

Story cloths are one of several types of Hmong needlework and fabric arts known as paj ntaub, or "flower cloth." It’s an art ...