Women first learn to weave around the age of fifteen or sixteen from their mothers and grandmothers. The training begins from weaving the woollen cloth or nambu followed with making blankets or suktul and small carpets or sukden . At first, the young girls find it tiresome to weave. Gradually, they realise the importance of weaving clothes for the entire family. Once the girls become competent, it is common for women to leave the family's weaving on their young daughters.
Men begin to weave at the age of seventeen or eighteen years.
The fathers, uncles and elder brothers teach them to weave strips that make up the tent. In the present day, the nomadic way of life is undergoing tremendous change triggered predominantly by migrations from Rupchu to Leh. Overgrazing on the Changthang has resulted in depletion of the livestock and several families are forced to migrate in search of new pastures. The Rupchu nomads are completely dependent on nature and natural resources for survival and infringement on these may be devastating. This gets coupled with increasing susceptibility to illness and increasing emphasis on literacy from the government.