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Thai silk - The silk that is smooth like no others Edit
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Thai silk fabric has a good international reputation for its beauty and distinctive character, especially for its special qualities, bearing unique patterns and colours. It is the reigning queen among fabrics available to consumers today. Little was known about Thai silk among foreigners in the past because the fabric was not even popular with the majority of local citizens for whom viewed that silk was a reserved textile only for high ranking and well off individuals. The art and skill of making silk textiles has been widely popular since historic times. The central government has given great interest and provided the support of silk worm rearing since 1902 and have expanded public support in promoting the quality of silk textiles to replace imported Japanese silk. Silk textiles are cultural art treasures that reveal the uniqueness and livelihood of Thai's from past to present which is represented through the intricate woven patterns, colours and diverse techniques in the production which is unique to each community. In addition, silk textile test products are created by transforming traditional textiles into useful consumer items such as handbags, wallets and clothing.
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Natural dyed cotton (Indigo) Edit
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Natural dyed cotton fabric in Thailand is special because of two reasons; natural colour can be dyed as dark colour, light colour or bright colour which will not fade easily. The other reason, the cotton material can well ventilate and absorb sweat very easily. So, it is well accepted not only in domestic market but also other international market. Natural dyed fabric is the folk wisdom which has been handed from generation to generation as the cloth to be used only inside each household. One piece of cloth is like an art piece with the design of nature and animal as the belief of the local people. So it becomes unique and is difficult to copy. Natural dyes are dyes or colourants derived from plants.
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The plant has been used worldwide for over 6000 years to dye fabric but the techniques used to dye and create clothing differ from place to place. The history of traditional natural dyed clothing in Thailand has not been well documented and the practice disappeared fifty years ago.
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Wool blended cotton Edit
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Wool blended cotton fabric is the unification of the prominent points of cotton and wool. Wool is the material with flexibility and ability to keep the wearer warm while cotton provides lightness, cool and added colour for the woven cloth. Combining the two materials together gives extra warmth but lighter than regular warming apparels with different colour tones in the same piece of cloth. It takes complicated process with more than 10 steps to prepare wool for producing yarns and weaving with cotton from wool cleaning, boiling, drying, blending, combing, throwing the fibre for yarns, dyeing, to simultaneously weaving with cotton to produce many forms of apparels such as scarves, shawls, hats, etc.
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As for the cotton, they used to rely on home-grown material but currently switched to readymade cotton from elsewhere to reduce complex procedures. The uniqueness cotton wool blend fabric, however, is maintained as the weaving equipment from the old days called “Kie Ew” is still used during the weaving process and the patterns are still the original designs such as ixora pattern, corn pattern, zigzag pattern, cross and square pattern, ladder pattern, pigeon’s neck pattern, and custom pattern. Such material is the wool collected from the sheep raised in high land 1,000 – 1,300 m above sea level. The villagers started to weave wool in 1957 after the missionaries provided them with training and five sheep. The quality of wool blended cotton has gained reputation very quickly since then.
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