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Handicraft, Chiang Mai Chiang Mai is Thailand's major centre for quality handicrafts. The visitors need merely visit the nearest city emporium or night market to purchase handicrafts. A major advantage of shopping in Chiang Mai is that the visitor may watch artisans working within the city and in several outlying villages.
Major Chiang Mai handicrafts include: Cottons & Silks - first class Chiang Mai cottons and silks are of incomparable quality. Cottons and silkshave innumerable fashion and furnishing applications. The largest possible selection is available in San Kamphaeng. Furniture / Woodcarving - Chiang Mai is a major centre of furniture making. Major woods and materials include teak, rosewood and rattan. Items may be unadorned or, especially with teak and rosewood, artfully carved in traditional or modern designs. Woodcarving is a traditional northern Thai art featured in numerous temples. In recent years, wood carving has increasingly embellished furniture, gracing screens, chairs, tables, beds, indeed anything bearing a wooden surface large enough to be carved. Carved elephants, figurines and tableware number among other popular purchases.
Lacquer ware - striking black and gold designs give Lacquer ware its visual appeal and sheen. This decorative art enhances items made of wood, bamboo, metal, paper and baked clay, in the form of receptacles, ornaments and various souvenirs.
Umbrellas - Parasols - These are inextricably associated with Bo Sang where
villagers have been engaged in their manufacture for at least 200 years. All
materials, silks cottons, sa paper and bamboo are produced or found locally.
Visitors to Bo Sang will see literally hundreds of designs and sizes ranging
from the miniature to the gigantic. Silverware - The finest Thai silverware is exquisite, and is made in Chiang Mai, where certain families have practiced their art for several generations. Traditional skills and a guaranteed content of at least 92.5% pure silver invest bowls, receptacles and decorative items with authentic value. Silver shops are concentrated on Wua Lai Road, where silverware artisans and their families live. Hill tribe Products - These include silver ornaments, such as bracelets, necklace, pendants and pipes of intricate design, and embroidered items including tunics, jackets, bags, purses, caps and dress lengths. Gold Plated Orchids & Butterflies - Orchids and butterflies are preserved and plated with 24-carat gold to create unusual gift items such as necklace pendants, hairpins and earrings. Chiang Mai Night Bazaar The
North is well-known for its local handicrafts, from wood carving to silverware,
lacquer ware, hill tri Chiang Mai Night Bazaar carries a good selection of all the above northern items, and of course, prices are negotiable.
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Umbrellas
made of sa paper, hill tribe crafts with bold colors, fabrics of countless types,
delicate ceramics, replicated and genuine antiques, dazzling jewelry and gems,
silverware of all sorts, lacquer ware with intricate designs, rattan and
wickerwork, and woodcarvings ranging from pictures to furniture are only a part
of the long list of crafts and arts that help to make Chiang Mai special. Each
individual piece of workmanship requires paints taking attention to detail and
design in the process of its creation. Owning one of Chiang Mai's tradition
crafts is a sure way to take back tangible memories of your visit to Chiang Mai.
Whatever it is you are looking for - be it a keychain or Thai silk - Chiang Mai
offers the shopping facilities for you to find a buy that you will be pleased
with.
Pottery
- Chiang Mai is the major centre of Thailand's pottery industry. prized items
include high-fired celadon which is produced in many forms, including dinner
sets, lamp bases and decorative items.
be clothing and ethnic jewelry, and hand painted
umbrellas.