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The Depository documents 3 techniques in Lesotho; by risk level: 2 vulnerable, 1 thriving. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
The hand-weaving of a tall, pointed conical straw hat from mosea grass by Basotho women of Lesotho, currently the subject of an active nomination -- 'The knowledge, craft techniques and skill of making the Basotho hat / Moliea-Nyeoe' -- to…
The weaving of thick, patterned woolen blankets on foot-operated treadle looms, a national dress tradition of the Basotho people of Lesotho combining pre-colonial material culture with 19th-century colonial-era trade innovation.
The malting, mixing, and multi-day fermentation of sorghum (and, in some preparations, maize meal and wheat flour) into joala, a thick, opaque, mildly alcoholic traditional beer central to Basotho social, ceremonial, and communal life in…