Learn about Yao textiles at Siam Society

The Thai Textile Society is holding a multimedia presentation on “The Splendor Of Yao Textiles” at Siam Society, Asok Road, on Saturday at 10am.

The Yao ethnic collective represents a diverse multiplicity of Mien and Mun subgroups, which likely originated in the mountains of northeast China. Over the following millennia they migrated in a southerly trajectory along the great rivers of Asia, spreading throughout central and eastern China before further fanning out among the foothills and lowlands of the Golden Triangle — northern Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.

Since the first ancestors, the Yao have kept their history and culture alive through magnificent oral, literary and artistic traditions. Among these, clothing fabrication and silver-smithing are as exceptional as they are distinctive. Whether worn for everyday tasks, cycles-of-life events, festive celebrations or…