The mother of the land, who raised the life of the Thai fabric through the arts.
In the face of Siam's cultural history, "Thai cloth" is never just a garment, but a semantic system that weaves together "identity, gender, social landscape and faith."
Yet, before "Thai silk" became a symbol of Thai and before the Arts program restored the value of local handicrafts to the world...Thai cloth used to be silenced and homeless.
In the early 20th century to the 1957 "s, Thailand entered the era of" concrete modernization. "The state promoted an industrial economy, factory clothing replaced hand-woven clothing, cheap raw materials from abroad, became the engine of development.
The result is....Thai cloth has become an "old-fashioned" item, economically worthless.
In rural households that used to be woven in every house, the weavers were left abandoned, Thai women who used to be weavers became laborers in the capital. At the same time, the creation of the "Thai state" of the era did not include "Thai cloth" in the memory, and it was omitted only in museums or in local memory.
Until 1970, the Queen (in the 9th reign) visited the people throughout the country, not only seeing poverty, but seeing hidden "values" in the vernacular, especially the "hand-woven cloth" that still exists in rural women.
It was from the royal heart that the "Arts Promotion Foundation" was created, not only to preserve, but to create a new space for Thai cloth to exist in the modern world.
Art is not just a beauty project, but a grassroots social revolution.
The initiative to promote hand-woven fabrics stopped not only by reviving the fabric, but also by reviving people in the midst of rural-to-urban migration during economic development, he saw that if one could restore one's occupation, one could preserve one's family, community, and wisdom.
Weaving activities that used to be just "housework" became "income-generating jobs." Women who used to be just factory workers became entrepreneurs in the community. Children did not have to leave their grandmothers to weave. Men did not have to leave their homes to work in urban construction. Rural sustainability began as a small yarn woven in the eyes of the mother of the land.
Thai cloth is not backward but capital, culture is beauty and dignity of Thai women.
Thai cloth became a cultural language spoken about by the younger generation, becoming a creative economy that raised women, the elders, and their offspring in the community.
And become "proud" of the past, present and future of Thais.
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