“I chose this color because it is bright and looks like nature. The white seed is called safflower seeds. We can plant these seeds for ourselves, and we can also make cotton by ourselves.

Especially boys, they cannot wear clothes sewn with safflower seeds. ” ‍

——Naw Dal Ra Mee

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In the local community, these white seed beads are colloquially called “safflower seeds”. Botanically they are Job’s Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi), traditionally hand-embroidered on women’s textiles.