Newly arrived in the GazLanNaThai.com online store, and in plenty of time for your autumn and winter handicrafts projects, is a brand new range of Mulberry Bark Papers in an exciting new style – they look like handmade lace! When we first heard of these new papers a few weeks ago, there were only a [...]

With summer in full flow, it’s time to break out the florals in the hand-painted batik patterns of our full-sheet mulberry bark paper. These beautiful papers, knows as “saa paper” in Thailand are the Swiss Army knife of paper-based handicrafts. They are exceptionally versatile and available in a huge variation of weights, textures, colours, patterns, [...]

When I researched, wrote, and published “Wieng Kum Kam – Atlantis of Lan Na” in 2002, I made a number of predictions about what would happen with the medieval archaeological site near Chiang Mai, and offer some of my hopes for it too. Today I stumbled upon a YouTube video by an American tour leader [...]

Amazing Thailand is probably one of the most apt descriptions for the country from a westerner’s viewpoint.  Even after over a decade of living here full time, it still finds ways to amaze me daily. A standing joke at Gaz Grange relates to Mrs Gaz’s assertions before we moved here, that the mains electric in [...]

I am deeply saddened this week to learn of the passing of my best and closest Thai friend after a long battle with leukaemia. Jan had been battling Leukaemia for around a year now, and was in remission and doing well, but succumbed suddenly on the 19th June. I’m posting this sad news here on [...]

Another old favourite range has returned to the GazLanNaThai online catalogue. These attractive and low-priced handmade notebooks used to sell regularly from our store on eBid.net, and intermittently from “the eBay store formerly known as GazLanNaThai“, but for a couple of years now, we forgot to consistently list them at those places. We’ve now taken [...]