ผ้าโชค / ตีนจก (Phaa Chok / Teen Jok)
Geometric supplementary weft pattern weaving on cotton. Chok (Chaiyaphum, Northeast) creates all-over geometric patterns; Teen Jok (Lampang/Lamphun, North) creates intricate supplementary weft borders on cloth hems. An additional weft thread is manipulated by hand or stick to create raised pattern on plain base weave.
Risk level: Endangered · Not Listed
Complex supplementary weft brocade silk weaving producing interlocking geometric and floral patterns on a plain silk ground.
Plain tabby weave of Thai mulberry silk on a treadle loom, producing lustrous cloth with subtle slub texture from Thai silkworm reeling.
Weaving of extremely fine fibers from the Lipao climbing fern (Lygodium flexuosum) found only in southern Thailand rainforests, producing lace-like basketry objects of exceptional refinement.
Hand-painted wax-resist fabric technique of southern Thailand, distinguishable from Javanese batik by its emphasis on hand-painting (rather than canting drawing alone) and a distinct pattern vocabulary of marine life, tropical flora, and…
Application of multiple layers of black lacquer (Lak tree resin) on teak or bamboo substrates, followed by gold leaf application on a tacky intermediate coat to create intricate decorative motifs on the black ground.
Construction of decorative parasols from a bamboo spoke-and-pole framework covered with mulberry paper (saa paper) or cotton cloth, then hand-painted with northern Thai floral and nature motifs.
Shu (شو) is the traditional woolen cloth of Chitral District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — the narrow valley gateway to the Hindu Kush and one of the most geographically isolated communities in South Asia.
Adras (Адрас) is the second major Uzbek ikat tradition — using a silk warp resist-dyed with the abr technique woven against a plain cotton weft.
Shoyi (Шойи) is the plain Uzbek silk textile — the foundational silk fabric from which ikat and zardozi traditions develop, and important in its own right as the base cloth for embroidery and as a prestige fabric in plain form.
The production of the chechia, Tunisia's national brimless, cylindrical felted-wool cap, dyed vermilion red, through an extraordinarily distributed six-stage supply chain spanning multiple named towns and cities, each responsible for one…
The textile weaving tradition of Augsburg — the city that was one of the most important European cotton and linen textile centers from the 14th to the 18th centuries, its Barchent (cotton-linen blend cloth) trade financed by the Fugger…
The linen weaving tradition of Bielefeld and the Ravensberger Land — the North Rhine-Westphalian linen production region that was Germany's most significant linen cloth manufacturing center from the medieval period to the late 19th…