Strumming up Business.
It looks like a stringed instrument, sounds like a one stringed harp, but has nothing to do with music. It’s actually played a lot this time of year and the noise is a timely reminder to people of the coming winter and the need for freshly sown quilts for bedding.
He simply walks around a neighbourhood usually early morning strumming the cotton stretched along the instrument keeping it well stretched. The noise carrying a long way will alert people to his presence and hopefully an order for a new quilt made either up on their flat roof or back at his little workshop. That same cotton is used in the making. The results are beautifully coloured masterpieces.
Long may he strum.