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Designer Senaka de Silva has been busy - far away from the Colombo catwalk, in a tsunami ravaged village in the East of the country. These days his thoughts are most often in Maradumane, a village in the Ampara district where he has been working with the 600-700 handloom weavers teaching them design and colour techniques that would enable them to bring their traditional craft to a wider audience.

....Weaving is a way of life for this community and in each and every home, there are at least two or three looms, says Senaka, explaining that this had been a tradition handed down from generation to generation and the weavers are highly skilled....

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