CARPENTRY TOOLS which were being used to build cupboards.
Category: Craftsman
MISHTI IN THE MAKING in Joypara. Mishti is the general name given to many sweets that are made in Bangladesh.
GARMENT WORKERS leaving factory in Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. In Dhaka there are at least 40,000 factories, hiring 2 million workers of which 80-90% are women. A 13 yr. old worker locks herself in the bathroom or goes on the rooftop when the Child Labor inspectors come because she doesn’t want to lose her job. She is the main supporter of her family at $32 per month. They now only like to hire the tall young girls because they look earlier. So, the short young girls can’t find jobs to help support their families.
THE POTTER, my son Austin! I couldn’t resist another of my son since it was his 36th Birthday yesterday. Here he is at work in his studio in Ohio. He sold his kiln when he moved to Bangladesh.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my son, Austin & my sister, Lillian!! Here is a self-portrait Austin painted. I took the photo at his house while celebrating his Bachelor’s Degree in Art from the University of Akron, in 2007.
BLACK-TOPPING continued. Here is a lady worker who keeps feeding sawdust into the fire to heat up the gravel, tar, etc. mixture. There are other fires to heat up the tar to pour into this mixture.
BLACK-TOPPING on a street in Iqbal Road. This street has been one of the roughest streets, and finally it is being blacktopped! I posted this for my friend Paul Troyer, who is a black-topper in Ohio.
TAILOR
Either a afternoon break or no work!
MUSLIM Painter
This fellow told me to wait to take his photo. He stopped painting and reached into his pocket and took out his tupi, saying that he is a Muslim. I then took his photo with the tupi on.
LUNGI in the making. While in Joypara we enjoyed watching the different steps in the weaving process of lungi-making. At night when you walked down the path, you could hear the clickety-clack of the looms. The lungi is what poor men wear all the time and others only in the confines of their homes. I wear one most of the time in my home.
HAIRCUT I went up the street to Towne Hall Bazaar to get my haircut. It reminded me of this photo that Craig Mullet took in November. At this little shop without doors the haircut costs me 30 tk (45 cents U.S.)!
LOCKSMITH
I wanted two new keys to lock our apartment door. No Wal-Mart so I sent my helper to the market and he had this fellow make one with a file, punch, hack saw, hammer, etc. After several tries he came to the house so he could try them instead of my helper bringing them home, and taking them back when they didn’t work. Here he is holding the key blank with his big toe and finger of one hand while running the file with the other hand!!
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