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The Labubu dolls might be a very modern sensation, but this month they were combined with Hmong culture that is thousands of years old.
Members of the Hmong community gathered at the HOPE Center in Sacramento on Aug. 23 for a regular session of Culture Through Cloth, a community studio that promotes the Hmong textile art known as Paj Ntaub. It is pronounced PAHN-dao and is translated as “flower cloth.”
However, this time, the attendees applied their colorful stitching and beading to making small attire for the Labubu dolls, a recent craze originating in Hong Kong compared to the Beanie Babies craze of the 1990s.
The attendees create something different each month and the dolls were an example of how the old tradition of Paj Ntaub continues to adapt over the years.