During a recent trip from our Thailand holiday villa to my home village, I noticed a lot of activity in the old wooden houses along my soi, or street. Sitting outside and sheletered from the sun, villagers were busying themselves with the time-honoured cottage industry of Thai silk production. Each family was focussed on a diffferent task, depending upon the lifecycle stage of their silkworms. Some were feeding their caterpillars on fresh mulberry leaves; others were transferring the fully grown specimens to spinning baskets (where the silken cocoon is woven), whilst others were busy weaving threads that had already been spun and dyed.
The simplicity of the equipment used and the traditional methods employed may have appeared antedeluvian, yet the quality of the final woven Thai silk was incomparable, resplendent in traditional Isaan motifs.
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