Drokpa Nomads - Tibetan Black Tent

The black tents of Tibet are like no other. They appear to hang form the sky, using an exoskeleton of poles often higher than the tent itself.
There are gaps in this video as we did not manage to record the whole making of a tent - maybe next time, but the lives of these nomads, on the verge of settling into Chinese state provided huts, is worth a look anyway.

[@mathstrengthcom8574]

Tibet is a wonderful land with hardworking and beautiful people. It is a bit difficult to live here but it is wonderful for Tibetans, they have adapted to the environment. What wonderful people, they work all day with a smile on their face - God help.

[@prakashjog1948]

A tool to convert fiber, to thread followed by assembly of a weaving machine. Human brain is the biggest gift we have, its every achievement so fascinating to watch.

[@rinchendorjey5540]

Those who unlike this vedio. They don't know about this nomadic traditions. One of the beautiful life on this world.

[@marilynclare1139]

This and other documentaries of nomad peoples are wonderful to watch. These people live amazing lives. I will never complain again about a bad hair day.

[@hasnaalshammri4490]

كل أحد عنده يويس الا نا لا

[@hildacalcina1322]

Lmcif

[@oldones59]

What specifically about nomadic people's lives do you consider to be amazing?

[@johngray8606]

Absulutely amazing, hard work done together, you can't but notice they're happy doing this together. Yes the "modern" world has definitely lost something. Grateful thanks for this video. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@veronicaroach3667]

All I could wonder at was their health - what happens to their old people when they can no longer pull ropes & hustle the cattle ? Do they walk off into the sunset.?

[@merlemobjerg9381]

@@veronicaroach3667 They get isolated in old age homes and die of covid all alone.

[@healthrecord508]

@@merlemobjerg9381 lols. Wrong culture. Thanks for covid ccpchina. Ruined the entire planet. Shame on you.

[@mortalclown3812]

@@veronicaroach3667 Research it: they take care of their old folks. They certainly don't warehouse them as we do in America with rare exception.

[@madhavi7157]

@@healthrecord508 N Nm no please be

[@jshoar9676]

The Tibetian peoples are so blessed! I love all Faiths and Religions but I feel the Tibetians have the greatest concepts of Peace and respect for all living creatures 🥰😇🙏

[@glennlopez6772]

Thanks for the video! When it comes to weaving, most educated humans apart from hobbyists will be helpless if required to make the fabric shown here. It seems that weaving was a contribution of a woman's mind passed on for generations. A man's mind could also have come up with something but was mostly engaged in other activity. Women should never forget or underestimate their natural creativity.

[@ohm3142]

I miss my motherland thanks for the video 🙏

[@Moostery]

The little twisting machine at 8:44 is so simple and brilliant.

[@nadtab3454]

I m post graduate in Economics, but i find myself an ignorant urban fool who can not fold the blanket properly. These people have real skills, if i have to survive a day without urban facilities, i may die

[@gschady]

then you honestly didn't get a good Liberal Arts education (or have parents) .. "can not fold a blanket"? sheesh brah

[@gook5219]

@@PeterSramka good point. Agree

[@malungisamaseko3155]

What impresses me the most is the team work. They work well together, in our parts of the world working as a team with a woman is a luxury. Our culture has been lost due to too much exposure to the modern world

[@mallidisubbareddy5055]

Thanks for the vedio. These people are very hard working and highly satisfied people in the earth. Highly creative woman and hard working men. Their coperation among the group is excellent. Hats off to them I am from india

[@peaceofboy94]

I love my country TIBET 🙏🙏🙏😍😍😍peaceful peoples

[@user-sl3zv8cq9k]

do you think people there will live better off independent than under china?

[@user-sl3zv8cq9k]

I am asking a serious question. I know the independent country neighbored with Tibet is probably the poorest country in the world.

[@thakurrandharsingh9036]

@@user-sl3zv8cq9k no no they happy where they are.. Tibet is poisoned with gelukpa religion where they want other religion disappear

[@delhikanpur789]

​@user-sl3zv8cq9k I got serious questions you want to be my slave , I will pay you enough.

[@string-bag]

The people are so comfortable in their environment, something we have lost sadly. Thanks for a great video waiting for the next.

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

We're comfortable in ours too, but try not to idealize them. They accept a great deal from the west, including plastics and cheap synthetic clothing. If one is not aware of the richness of heritage, then western ways appear to be superior. They too succumb.

[@sadettindemiral6346]

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[@bret9741]

In general Tibet peoples have been happy to stay within Tibet and live among themselves. Sadly throughout history Genghis Khan, and currently China have invaded and controlled often being massacred for their desire of independence.

[@syedrizwan4266]

THIS BLACK TENT REMIND ME WHEN I WAS BAVING THE TENTS IN DESERTS OF KUWAIT WHEN I WAS AT KUWAIT SOME 3 YEARS BACK.NEVER ENDING THOUGHTS.

[@elizeteaparecidahildebrand7713]

POVO AMADO QUE CONHECI EM 2010...VIAGEM INESQUECÍVEL....UM PEDAÇO DA MINHA ALMA, FICOU POR LÁ...

[@StanyBodson]

Merci pour votre et leurs travaux. Je trouve les vidéos trop courtes. 12 minutes ce n'est pas assez pour bien s'imprégner des concepts ancestraux proposés. Thank you for your and their work. I find the videos too short. 12 minutes is not enough to fully immerse yourself in the ancestral concepts offered.

[@msterry9694]

Your videos are wonderful. I feel I have been so many places all over the world! Thank you!

[@DylanDenaliSullivan]

Thank you so much for filming this! I am so grateful! This is such incredible skill, craft, and technology they have developed. May it live on for many many many generations in a good way!

[@Peter.Trading]

They should label those poles; I’ve had the same problem with IKEA furniture.

[@ElkinsEric]

Have the same problem with the poles for my teepee. I ended up numbering them. Way easier meow.

[@billyoldman9209]

I think it was just the men getting in the way. Women do all the work in Tibet while men travel or sit in monasteries.

[@baddogarf]

That’s because IKEA furniture is pretty much junk...well not all of it but about 85%...concentrate on getting furniture that will last!

[@jimbojet8728]

They can’t write! Supposedly wonderful lives and culture? No schools though? No formal learning. So no reading and writing, no computer tech training? How wonderful? Not! They’re good hard working people who get on with things , but no schools and hospitals ? That’s grim! The Dark ages!

[@logann7942]

I love these videos. Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to see the way another culture does things. I always hope I can learn from it. 🙏 😊

[@oldones59]

Learning is basic research, an intake of knowledge. Wisdom is applying that knowledge to good use.

[@logann7942]

And Diet Dr. Pepper tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper.

[@healthrecord508]

"Settling" into ccpchina state cottages? Who in their right mind would abandon the freedom and culture of these amazing people? How sad!!

[@kimfleury]

It's interesting that over the decades, nomadic people are wearing more Western clothing. The documentaries we watched on TV and in school movies 50 years ago, as well as the National Geographic magazines from that time, always showed the people in traditional clothing. Now it seems they all have t-shirts and jeans or khakis. They didn't used to fuss with their clothing, either. I noticed these men and women all had to stop to pull up their pants or skirts.

[@green_fox12]

Totally agree with you! It's like this unspoken pressure to wear western clothing. I spent my whole 4 years of highschool wearing my full shalwar kameez with chadar and no one wanted to be friends with me. I got used to it in the end. Then I started wearing black trousers with my kameez and chadar and was so uncomfortable for 4 years. Soon as I graduated I never wore trousers ever again. Went straight back to comfy linen shalwars and it was like I could breathe again. Wish these nomadic people didn't loose their traditional clothing 😔

[@oldones59]

This video and channel are about nomadic architecture, and you remark about xlothing? Your comment is irrelevant.

[@Valentina-dy6jw]

@@green_fox12 По калмыцки "шалвр" это брюки

[@dogdog9857]

if you think about it somebody hundreds if not thousands of years ago someone figured this out.... the more i see this kind of stuff the more the mind boggles

[@gschady]

put your starbucks and iphone down and walk in the woods alone someday .. YOU'D figure it out around dark or if it starts raining .. really FAST you would

[@williamrobinson4265]

not "somebody" but generations of people and maintaining that cultural history behind the technology the manufacture and operation

[@edwardvillate2112]

Those are TECHNICS that have taken HUNDRED of YEARS to DEVELOP !!!👍 !!!

[@ethelpedetti4584]

469 mil suscriptores, con ese dinero se compra ropas en algun pueblo, comida abrigos, todo tipo de insumos para sostener esa escenificacion

[@Moostery]

Please include more "Making the tent" sections of the video. I love learning about how they are made =)

[@NomadArchitecture]

We are trying to get back there but not so easy to get into China/Tibet at the moment!

[@saffron1977]

@@NomadArchitecture pls visit leh Ladakh , it's similar

[@marshamercer876]

The mother 👩 is still beautiful for her age

[@lenordolker3993]

Love you my fellow Tibetans:)

[@billibobbi3521]

All the other people been doing it for generations, they can do it blind folded no talk.and all the tents and structures look cosy..and life Carrie's on 🥰🧡👋

[@richardburmeister5776]

Amazing and most informative video. Thank you. I see a community which will survive and thrive beyond our cell phone addicted culture.

[@ladycharsw]

Thanks for the video. I hope you have more videos of people from diffetent land and their customs❤🙋

[@NomadArchitecture]

More to come!

[@paullangford8179]

I like the vignette of the woman sitting down, cheerfully whaling away at a tent peg with the sledgehammer.

[@GLRAKER]

The tent structure is very similar to the nomads of the Sahara desert just bigger and better enclosed.

[@CocoapieRodriguez]

NO cellphones no TV, NO KZbin tutorial

[@littleaussiehomesteaders6013]

Look how complicated the process was to make the fabric. So many steps. I wonder how many thousands of years these people have been handing down that information.

[@user-kd1ne5yy4l]

Кыргызстандан салам..!!👍

[@SL33P-WALK3R]

3:55🤤 A backbone joint for the spine of the tent! 🤤Awsome stuff, my tent don't come w/a real backbone joint!😂🤣

[@paulomendonca966]

Parabéns 🎇👏 não é fácil 😃 mais são felizes 😃👏 abraço Jaú SP Brasil 🌹

[@deborahleeedwards5510]

What an extremely awesome video!! Thank you for it!

[@adamel-yousseph960]

I think the word pegu is a more proper name for this bovine than the word yak is because pegu came from the Tibetan word pegu, which is the general word for these bovines in that language, while gyag, which is the Tibetan root of the word yak, refers specifically to the males. Do you think so?

[@r.jr.j8373]

How amazing these people are and whole their work, and life!

[@rutbrea8796]

As well, the women making rug, and the spools are similar to the ones in the middle east. It's quite amazing.

[@credliber3339]

Sînt oameni puternici și frumoși.. Bravo.

[@rigzinyangdol2889]

The women are amazing at doing hard work n still laugh n smile 🙏🙏🙏

[@Rainbow.384]

what if the rain comes

[@imustbegettinolder4434]

Beautiful people. Would be wonderful to hang out with them. Too bad there isn't dialogue explaining what is going on .

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

I don't understand why the loom design requires the worker to stand and bend over. Even if it's been done that way for generations, seems like someone would think, we could be more productive and comfortable if they loom was upright, that way you could stand or sit. This is one aspect of remote peoples that I don't understand, they don't really change things, even if they are inconvenient.

[@user-uq9vy7gx2x]

An upright loom would require more timber to make it, and wood seems to be scarce, that's why. I wonder why she doesn't sit on the cloth like people from other countries using that kind of loom do, though.

[@LiberalArtsFactory]

It's really beautiful to see you willing to enjoy your daily life. I will see you well. I'm making a video of a traditional Korean singer, a designer from Samsung Electronics, and two men who came home and traveled and sing. So I saw and felt a lot, so I left a comment.

[@ganaderiasencilla5596]

Thanks for filming all this!!

[@NomadArchitecture]

you are welcome, thank you for watching!

[@laxmirai6585]

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[@kathrynbunton4429]

Fantastic video. Loved watching the making of the tent especially the spinning and weaving process, they are very skilled!

[@lobsangchomphel7360]

Tashi delek thank you support i💟 my tibetan important place save tibetan thanks you

[@FERNANDOAMENDIVIL]

~ TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK. ~

[@rutbrea8796]

It's amazing how similar are the tents of the middle east and the Tibetan people are. How did they all got the same idea.

[@NomadArchitecture]

They travelled along ancient trade routes, yurts with mongol warriors to the north, black tents with arabs/persian traders further south. But actually the tibetan tent then developed to be quite unique and different as it is a mesh of ropes over which the cloth is draped. An adaptation as they used yak hair rather than camel and goat. Also if you look at my vid on berber tents you will see that the looms are much more basic. The frame came from the meeting with chinese culture. Yurt and black tent both met in Afghanistan where sadly I cannot safely go - Well you did ask!

[@snowstrobe]

Perhaps Genghis had some influence over that, he did make it to Europe.

[@silverdrillpickle7596]

What language is that Yak speaking? “Get this yakkin thing off me!”

[@md.kamaluddin100]

U have made a fine video. thank U. C is a fine country.

[@PS-vc2yz]

The most amazing thing is how they embrace such tedious work. Goes to show what humans have done over the centuries to survive.

[@sophieonthemtn1239]

It's done in community and under their control. Anything done together will be more interesting. It's under modern industrialization processes that work became Taylorized and removed from the control of the worker. That sort of work alienates us from the product, the production process, each other, and ultimately ourselves.

[@mortalclown3812]

It's hard to imagine them not craving easier methods of life in all the ways.

[@markbates3180]

How would they know? Don't see any televisions or internet. Not even an out house. My guess is they are very happy with their life and don't want much change. Try working construction for a while. You'll understand.

[@monanadeem8523]

Such hard working people. Informative video thanks 🙏

[@hamitakdemir1714]

Saygılar sevgiler sunuyorum efendim ben Moğol halkına

[@academiadeescrituraglobal1165]

Saludos de Joacin Montoya, inventor de ESCRITURA GLOBAL... Donde se pueden hablar muchos idiomas y dialectos del presente y del futuro...

[@vanhuu7494]

Đây là phương pháp dựng lều trại nhanh chóng hiệu quả và chắc chắn nhất . Mà các hướng đạo sinh đã được huấn luyện .....

[@theresearchentertainmentch5215]

Good, from Cambodia

[@norbu9teen594]

One of the mist amazing lifestyles is these nomads.

[@tuyetnguyen9019]

Amazing job!

[@serranita367]

Por favor traducirlo al español o al menos con subtitulos, es una lastima no entender nada de estos maravillosos documentales

[@india1422]

Love that loom they set up

[@sakthishivam]

Awsome.... hardworking and peaceful people

[@bajoobiecuzican]

Anybody who has put up a GP medium military tent knows the struggle is real.

[@jackieeastom8758]

What a beautiful family life!

[@saadaljuhani7329]

I like the video... Thanks

[@lucimaramendes5891]

Famílias lindas abençoadas por Deus🙏😍😍

[@deepquake9]

So peaceful

[@mustafamelihkadioglu8107]

This kind of life ,is not easy to endure for a life time..They try to go on but lacking all the technology that the World live with..Maybe,in the past ,there were little differences between the city life but now there is huge amount of differences of live styles..For ex.: educations for children,health and care requirements are lacking..Water and hygiene for a clean life is needed..So,perhaps themselves also are thinking about it...I hope that they will find a way to overcome the situation..Good luck for everyone...

[@live-with-breath]

Beautiful to travel

8:20 seems like relieving job

[@thaisdarosa2100]

Gotta re-teach the herders in Karnak and other parts of Ladakh because they say they’ve forgotten how to weave the tent material! Maybe textile schools in Gangtok and elsewhere are keeping the skill alive!?

[@faviolapenaloza5982]

Muy duro trabajo para las mujeres los hombres que hacen

[@nikamen326]

Live simple life. No competition

[@user-ks9ob3ew4c]

يا حليلهم بدو المغول. .احتراف صناعة بيوت الشعر. .المغزل لغزل شعور الحلال

[@thienminh878]

Chương 17 chiếc lá bồ đề chúc mọi người nghe hạnh phúc cảm ơn nhiều. Thi Văn sấm giảng chúc mọi người nghe hạnh phúc cảm ơn nhiều. Đường xưa mây trắng trọn bộ chúc mọi người nghe hạnh phúc cảm ơn nhiều....1987....

[@kelli3610]

Thank you

[@johnm1585]

This is a beautiful video. I subscribed so I can keep up with your other work.

[@NomadArchitecture]

Thanks, there will be more coming in a few weeks-months as soon as we can travel again.

[@Simcore999]

wow, superb thanks!

[@beytibilgec3744]

Great video thanks 👍

[@rutbrea8796]

One thing I don't like is the ring into the animal nose, it most hurt them a lot. Why can't these men just make some kind of leather strap to place around the neck and shoulders to pull the poor animals? Other wise they seem to be amazing, clean, hard working people. The area around the mountains are stunning. Thank you for sharing this story with us.

[@NomadArchitecture]

I have seen a lot of brutality towards animals researching this. I have seen even worse towards women, not in Tibet though.

[@azice01]

Clearly you have not tried to make ox to carry and move. Those ones used over there can be very stubborn. A lot times even with ring through the nose, they just don't move. This is why pretty much nose rings are used everywhere across the world through history.

[@jorjilo72]

Wonderful life ❤

[@alwahbirx]

تقريباً مثل بادية العرب إلا أن العرب لايحبون البقر فقط خيل وجمال واغنام

[@g.a.4568]

Free Tibet.

[@phantom7crossrose528]

Wal Mart 2.99😇

[@vanhuu7494]

Cái mà các nơi đô thị và các thành phố không có . Chính là môi trường không khí trong lành ở vùng thảo nguyên này ...OK....

[@dozogurl55]

I think that the men are not used to doing this. The women are. They are tough people.

[@fabioferreiragomes]

Incrível.....Espetacular

[@murkydepths181]

I would have liked to have seen more detail of the spinning process, but thank you anyway very interesting video

[@robertfelts8773]

That pack animal didn't seem too happy. Maybe that rope pulling at his nose upsets him

[@latiafavi2687]

We in the same page.i fell sorry for the cows

[@4ka778]

Yaks always look like that , even those wild one.

[@gustavoromerom.1232]

No hay un árbol 🌲 ni para un remedio, diría mi abuelita😀

[@rakkyachopal5547]

Beautiful genuine Tibet nomad

[@sarakaya7581]

İşinize karışmak gibi olmasın ata yük leyin bu kadar çok seviyorum

[@user-mb7ek3nw2o]

وعلم الأنسان مالم يعلم سبحان الله العظيم

[@kishanmayarairai2629]

dharae ramro vedyo part 2 pane hagur

[@lizshoemaker]

I'm really curious how that yarn spinner works. It seems like it spins in both directions instead of continuously in one?? Someone please help me understand how it works!

[@juanelbueno6078]

Que inteligencia emocional!