The All-Purpose Signature Khmer Krama

Kramanation

Cambodia is world-known for the Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu cane sugar... and the all-purpose, all-recognizably Khmer -- the KRAMAS -- from a 50 cent cotton piece to high-quality silk found in the boutiques of Manhattan and Paris...

Louise Allison Cort, curator at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC admiring high quality Khmer silk wrapped in traditional Khmer krama (Photo: VOA Pin Sisovann, 2010)

Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles of Japanese artist Kikuo Morimoto, 2004 Laureate of Rolex Awards (Photo:  Laurent Teisseire)

Cambodian silk scarves ("high-end kramas") by Carol Cassidy at the Guggenheim Museum (Manhattan) - a very nice surprise to Theary Seng's okay visit to the Museum (under renovation) this March 2010 (top photo).  Theary wearing a Carol Cassidy Cambodian silk scarf to the Holocaust Museum in Berlin (Aug. 2009).

Two Cambodians -- one at Columbia University (sister of friend Mona, Thida Kem), the other executive director Phloeun Prim of Cambodian Living Arts (above right, Le Royal reception, 30 June 2010 - photo: Canadian Embassy) -- met each other among the millions while taking the subway this April 2010 in Manhattan when Thida asked whether Phloeun isn't Cambodian because of his krama.

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UN Representative of High Commissioner for Human Rights Christophe Peschoux in the signature krama at the International Human Rights Day celebration (Phnom Penh, 10 Dec. 2008)

Filmmakers Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin of Enemies of the People at the Sundance Film Festival (Photo: Scott Winterton of Deseret News, Utah, Jan. 2010)

The happy KI Media family in Kramanation (Credit: UNG Bun Heang, Aug. 2010)

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