Ancient Thai Wisdom
 Lacquering is the art of coating things like leaves of doors and windows in black lacquer
and gilding them with gold leaf.
 This craft technique found in book cabinets holding Buddhist scriptures and door leaves of many Buddhist temples.
Lacquer, or'Rak' in Thai, is the resin of a plant in the same family as the cashew nut.
The process of lacquering is complicated
and delicate.
It usually takes up to three or four months to complete such a work of art.
Thai wood carving is an ancient wisdom to give a craftsmanship skill excellently apart from cloth painting or other Thai arts.
Wood carving is the art of carving pictures, story of Thai life or Ramayana legend on the
woods
In the past, wood carving was created for religion or bureaucracy such as doors, windows and other structure of temples or churches
Today wood carving become a widespread home & spa decoration
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