การทำหัวโขน (Kan Tham Hua Khon)
Construction of papier-mâché base masks for the UNESCO-listed Khon masked dance drama (ICH 2018), decorated with lacquer, gold leaf, colored glass, and intricate fabric trim. Each mask character (demon king, deity, monkey warrior) has a precisely codified appearance system with hundreds of variants. Bang Sai Royal Folk Arts Centre confirmed as training center for mask-making (DCP).
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Listed (2018 — Khon masked dance drama; mask-making integral to the ICH element)
Inlaying of a black alloy (niello — silver, copper, lead, and sulfur) into engraved channels on a silver or gold base, followed by filing and polishing to produce high-contrast black-on-silver metalwork.
High-fired stoneware produced in the Sukhothai Kingdom (13th-16th century) at over 200 kilns in Si Satchanalai using advanced updraft kiln technology.
The southern Thai woven mat and basket tradition centered in Phatthalung and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces uses the krajud rush (Lepironia articulata — a wetland sedge) to produce sleeping mats, prayer mats, baskets, and bags of…
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The construction of the boi — the ox costume at the center of Bumba Meu Boi, Maranhão's ritualistic folk-theater complex blending music, dance, and Afro-Indigenous-Catholic spirituality — built over a wooden and leather frame worn and…
The Turkish Karagöz shadow puppet theater tradition — the Ottoman source tradition from which the Greek Karagiozis (CRAFT-1554) was adapted; the making of the flat jointed leather tasvir (figures) and the hayalci performance tradition that…
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