Welcome to Thai Tribal Crafts site, a beautiful hand made stylish. The products in this cataloque are produced by the hilltribe people of Northern Thailand. Most of the Karen, Lahu, Akha, Lisu, Meo, and Yao people are subsistence farmers, trying to carve a livelihood out of the marginal land available to them in the highlands. Others are displaced people who have fled from neighboring countries and are now living as refugees in Thailand. The selling of their handicrafts is virtualty their only means of gaining a cash income.
Although economically poor, these people have a rich heritage of artistic skill which has come down to the present generation in the form of their ctafts. It has been only in recent years that these crafts with their many artistic forms have come to be appreciated by people atside of their own tribes.
Some of the world's most exquisite hand-woven fabrics, needlework, and baskettry are produced by these six tribes, who traditionally live in Southern China, Eastern Burma, Northern Laos, and Northern Thailand.
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