The Phnom Penh Post
The tradition of handloom exists in all parts of Asia. In Cambodia, hand woven mats have provided income, in some places, for five generations. At the height of the business, weavers could produce and sell 8 to 10 mats a day, selling around 200 to 250 mats per month, and even more during the wedding season.
The mats would sell for $4.00-$7.50 USD, which to Americans sounds like a very reasonable price for hand woven goods. The problems that Cambodian weavers are now facing are the economic crisis and the importing of Thai and Vietnamese machine woven alternatives which sell at lower prices.
Sales of the hand woven mats have decreased by 50% and as a result production is slowing down. Although the weavers would like to lower their prices to compete with the foreign machine made products, they are already making such a low profit margin that they cannot sell the mats for any less.
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t is our great pleasure to meet Cambodian Industrialist at this movement to promote their
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Walter Jayewardene , Director of Alexandra Gem Export, in Sri
Lanka. We are very much interested about your Cambodian products.
because of there best quality stand.
Specially Handy crafts.Gem and Jewellery,Hand loom textiles,flowers
and plants,Ready made garments,furniture,gift items,leather products
and ect.
Anyway it is better if you could send us list of product of
Cambodia. Then we can select it. If you have any industrial exhibition
in Cambodia we would be able to visit any time and select many items
fir for our customers market.
Please send us more details then we can make best
understanding each other. We hope that very helpful thing is our
meeting in this connection.
Awaiting for your response.
Kind regards
Walter Jayewardene
Dr Walter Jayewardene
61/3 Old Road
Nawala
Rajagiriya
Sri Jayewardenepura
Sri Lanka
Tele 00 94 11 2 867864
email. wijayasirij8@gmail.com
Skype . walter.jayewardene