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Painting Butterflies On Umbrella

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Bang Saw is about 5 miles from Chiang Mai and is known as the "Umbrella Village." We visited a shop there which had an assembly line with specialists at each step of manufacturing. This woman had the romantic-sounding but tedious job of painting butterflies.