Around Thimphu

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The School Of Arts and Crafts. offers an eight-year course in religious and secular paintings, woodcarving, clay sculpture and traditional mask making. Very few student were in evidence when we visited.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos of woodcarving, dress design and the stones on which dyes are ground  

                  

Jungshina Handmade Paper Factory.

Making paper the traditional way from Daphne  plants.  Bhutan used to be the biggest supplier of paper in the Himalayans for the printing of religious scriptures and prayers

I didn't see too many flowers to photograph, here is the smallest.

And Bhim with the tallest.      
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