Cultural Heritage Product and Collection

Thailand are famous with its white elephant and silk fabric, but there are others that quite famous which is handmade product. Those product are often called as One product one Tambon, or could be translated as top original Thailand made product, which are handmade craft such as statue, painting, ceramic ware, etc., including foods, and other souvenirs.

Today I’d like to discuss about ceramic ware as one product one tambon. This handicraft you could see in Bangkok, in almost every section of the city. Some arts store and center such as Bang Sai Art and Craft Training Center also Chatucak Market is the examples of arts center in Thailand.
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One of the most authentic and arts heritage in Asia comes from Jepara City, one of small cultural city on Indonesia. Based on historical stories, Jepara carving has existed since the time of Majapahit Kingdom (this is about 800 years ago before Indonesia became a country).

At that time there is an artist who was asked to paint the body and face in the media empress king or carve wood. Apparently the painting on wood is very similar to the original form of the empress. And this instead of making the king happy, but actually angry, because this means that the artist already fully understand the details of body shape and face of the empress.
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Ceramic handicraft that what reflected on the word Benjarong. Benjarong itself is a traditional thai five basic colors style pottery. Benjarong also reflected of hand painted china porcelain which is painted in Thailand. Most of the products are tableware such as dinner services and tea/coffee services, other than that lamp, pots, candlesticks and many other porcelain products.

All people in thailand used is for gifts and show in their home in office. Thai people always buy it for present during thai new year because it’s very beautiful. These benjarong products can only be made by hand. When people see this product they know this is thai.
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For centuries, passed down skilled from generation to generation of Thai handicraft have a been a mirror of creativity and tourists attraction of the people of Thailand. The complex detail and rigorous methods of the invention is a performance art, and intricate design so evidence of perseverance. In addition, many natural materials such as rattan, palm leaves, and Thai coconut allows artisans to produce handicrafts are beautiful and inexpensive.

Since long time ago, the term ‘chang sip mu’ (ten categories of craftsmen) always used to refer to various arts and crafts. The ten categories are painting, lacquering (coating), engraving on hard materials, engraving on objects that are soft, the product model, coating (padding), lathing, casting, sculpture and stucco.
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