Tex-Thai-Yuls
Ha, another crazy “thai” pun. Will they ever stop?
I got tired of sleeping in a sleeping bag lining for the past few nights. As a matter of fact, my feet were beginning to feel claustrephobic. So I went to Siam Discovery [Mall] after class and picked up a handwoven cotten blanket. That’s a detail shot that you see there. The pattern is actually quite small. I almost picked up two, but I didn’t want to start hoarding just yet!
This was in the special “Green Production” section of the mall. Mind you, this is classy mall! There’s an Eco campaign going on there right now. So, they have lots of handcrafted goods on the first floor.
The ironic thing is that I paid 200 Baht ($6 US) for this handwoven textile, which is 10 to 15 times less than I would have paid for one made in a factory. There’s something incongruous about the value of handicrafts versus that of mass produced, overmarketed goods. Seriously!
