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Apart from using the small traditional tools as wedding gift it can be used for souvenirs by making them into key chains. The larger ones can be used as display items and if used in more creative ways, they can be vases for growing plants or flowers and also lamps or light fixtures.

The common materials she uses are aungroth, chhnieng, sap, trok, scarves and a tray to place fruits on. All of it is packed in a palm leaf box, and tied with plastics ribbon and veil.

The prices start at 1,000 riel and go up from there depending on the size that the customer prefers.

The items are made from different natural sources such as bamboo, vine, rattan and others which mostly can’t be found in their village anymore because there aren’t enough sources since many have started to do this work.

Some types of vines are hard to find in the normal area, which requires them to go up on the mountain and into the forests searching for them.

Theara Rouem, owner of Chhieng Mongkol souvenirs. Photo supplied

“Like I mentioned before, they are mostly elderly people so normally they will ask their children to help them find sources for the materials. It was tough and they are too weak to go on the dark and a peak mount in order to find those sources. My mom for instance is already old and my brother and I need to help her with it,” Theara says.

The products can be finished in one to three hours after the natural resources required for them are harvested.

Starting the business in 2018, she has yet to own a shop to sell all of her products. She just collects them from the villagers to store in her house and posts them on her page.

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Theara says that it is more than a business; she wants to create jobs and sustainability for the villagers, especially the elderly workers, so that they can generate some income for themselves that they can use for attending the pagoda and they won’t have to depend on their children in order to spend small amounts of money.

“My biggest motivation in starting the business is the love I have for Khmer traditional products and I really hope I can bring this love with me no matter what happens or what the circumstances are. In the future I’d like to have my own handicraft factory and my own shop to display all the items.

“Finally, on behalf of the people in our village and all Cambodian artisans, I would like to ask both local and international customers and all readers to help support Cambodian products so that they will not be lost and the knowledge of them can still be passed down to the younger generations just like this fishing tackle,” Theara says.

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