Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

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Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan is the blog of Simon Gibson, a New Zealander living in Tokyo, Japan. Focused on New Zealand, Japan, web design and other shiny things.

Gift Ideas from the Silk Road

While a camel might be out of the question, here are some of the fascinating things we have found that would make wonderful gifts:

  • Carpets – with their own distinctive style, carpets from Xinjiang, handmade by the local Uighur minority certainly add a touch of Central Asia
  • Knives – great as presentation pieces Uighur knives take one right back to the age of bandits and Silk Road thieves
  • Gourds – locally grown and hand-decorated Xinjiang gourds make for wonderful discussion pieces
  • Bird Cages – delicate hand made wooden bird cages take one back to nightengales and the 1001 Nights
  • Silk – the Silk Road was named after the silk traded between China and the Middle East and today the tradition lives on with Atlas Silk
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