Thai Textile: Treads of a Cultural Heritage

Thai Textile: Treads of a Cultural Heritage

The book tells about textile cultural of Thailand that it inherits more than 3,000 years. This book mentions about every type of textile and every design of textile in every region of Thailand including central, northern, eastern and southern. The book refers to how to apply the textile for the most effective and supporting Thai textile of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit to worldwide.

The element of the text that I like the best is procedure of weaving the textile because it must be careful, thorough, concentration, patience and competence so much to weave for each textile. If some textiles are quite difficult design, it will weave longer time than easy design. Every textile indicates cultural and living of former. The point in the text that I like the best is how to apply the textile to effective the most because each textile and each design are used for different things. For example,     some textile is used for wedding suite and wedding dress. A woman will weave wedding suit and wedding dress by herself, and if they marry and have children, then mother must weave textile dress for her children. If they have daughter, mother will teach weaving for her daughter. Some textile is used for funeral cremation. For example, Pan Chang textile, this textile weaves a line of a word, poem of dead person biography. The text is about morality which teaches about believed in goodness.  The textile uses for Thai festival is Sa-Bai, people often use when they are making merit or wearing in the traditional festivals such as Songkran festival and annual temple fairs. Sa-Bai is often weaved colorful glass bead print. The most popular color is red and gold. Khaw Ma textile, the textile is weaved with Ratchawat print and alternative colors, which is exquisitely beautiful. The popular color is red, many people like to use the edge a small piece of the fabric. The author started telling the history of textile that started from 3,000 years ago and discovered many evidences in several provinces of central of Thailand. Then         the author said about procedure of weaving since former, using basketworks and assorting silks.          The author told applying textile to use in religion ceremony or other festival in Thailand and supporting Thai textile of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit to worldwide. Her Majesty Queen Sirikit wove textiles by herself and she worn textile dress in mostly times even though she went to work in aboard. She made Thai textile be obvious to worldwide vision. The author mentioned local textile of regions in Thailand including central, northern, eastern, and southern because each region has different style such as design, silks or how to use textile. And the author concluded by Thai local vocabularies of weaving textile.