About Cotton & Silk Thailand, Toys, Handbags & Cloth

Cotton and Silk Thailand.Com is a cooperative of villagers from Central Thailand 'Kok Chareon Village' Lop Buri Province about 250km north of Bangkok. The area is best known for farming, producing vast amounts of Rice, Sugarcane and many Fruits and Vegetables, hence a great variety of natural materials.

How Cotton & Silk Thailand Started

Many came to live in the village from North-eastern Thailand where hand loom weaving thrived; they came to the area for work offered in the agriculture industry. Family members who did not want to work on the land set up there own businesses making and selling a wide variety of goods all made from materials local to the village. The area is not known for tourism, so few foreigners every go there, Its been like this for many years..

Catty who is a local girl and head nurse in ER department in a hospital married Chris from the UK in 2010 and on seeing the quality of the work in Toys, Cotton and Silk Cloth and Handbags etc, suggested that their products where of such high quality that they should offer their goods for sale outside of their own province.

The Mr and Mrs Rabbet gift at the wedding (they are amazing) and the warm friendly way the villages treated Chris inspired him to create this web site as a thank you to all those villages who work so hard and produce quality goods that will impress all who view them.

Our Handmade Cotton and Silk

It is said that the first fibres of Silk ever found where in the ruins of Baan Chiang, Thailand 3000 years ago, but probably originated in China or India.

In rural Thailand today you still find many villages producing fine quality Silk and Cotton cloth on hand looms that have been around for decades.

It is quite spectacular to watch the weavers at work; their eye for detail and quality has to be admired. The dedication involved in crafting the final product in the rural conditions would impress even today's modern manufactures.