Textiles

Textiles as a Material Lexicon of Tributary Relations in the Lao-Tai world

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255th INTG Meeting – A talk and presentation by Patricia Cheesman Background Patricia Cheesman has done in-depth field research in the Laos PDR and Thailand over the past 30 years. She published numerous books and articles on Lao and Tai textiles and has been lecturing at Chiang Mai University in the Thai Art Department since … Read more

Social Implications of Trade in the Chiang Mai Valley in the 19th Century

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6th INTG Meeting – A talk by Katherine Bowie Reference #1: Unraveling the Myth of the Subsistence Economy: Textile Production in Nineteenth-Century Northern Thailand Author: Katherine A. Bowie; Source: The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Nov., 1992), pp. 797-823; Published by: Association for Asian Studies Reference #2: Assessing the Early Observers: Cloth and … Read more