Wheel of Forgetting: Inside an ox cart craftsman's workshop

U Than Win, 63, traditional wooden ox carts. They contain 14 sleek spokes of teak, hubs of hard rosewood, and rims of hand-forged iron. He is one of the last cartwrights employed in his village of Shwe Pan Kone, a rice-growing community near the banks of the Irrawaddy River in northern Myanmar. Each of his carts is composed of 140 separate parts: a jigsaw of carefully selected lumber, leather strapping, and some iron braces.
“As long as farmers have been here, carts have been here. That’s how it’s been until today,” says Win. “We don’t have blueprints. We assemble carts from memory."
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