Mrs Gaz has been busy again. This time she’s released a new variant of the perennially popular 4×4 inch mulberry paper pocket notebooks, and another design for the growing 6×5 inch mini scrapbook medium-size notebook range. Using a thicker vellum-like mulberry writing paper, this range of notebooks are much thicker than the budget range already [...]
Water buffalo are used for ploughing fields in Thailand, but at the Chon Buri Buffalo Races they are put to a very different use. Side events include a buffalo fancy dress contest, a healthy buffalo contest, and the Miss Farmer Pageant. The annual Buffalo Race, held around the 11th lunar month -normally in October, is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mrs Gaz has been getting crafty of late. To prove it, here’s a snapshot of some of her new designs for notebooks and mini scrap-books made completely by hand, using offcuts from our mulberry paper ranges. These simple, but attractive, designs are her initial offering of 6×5 inch mini scrap-books / notebooks, which come with [...]
After a long absence due to availability issues, the popular range of Bai Suai Leaf Skeletons are back in stock at the GazLanNaThai.com online store. Previously much demanded by our customers on both our own website, and on third-party venues such as eBid, these skeletons leaves are extremely versatile handicrafts essential materials. Most commonly they [...]
Published in Chiangmai City Life Magazine – September 2002
Re-uniting Lan Na – Part 2
CHIANG MAI, Thailand – 27 June 2002
Decades ago, HM King Bhumipol realised that there were crops more profitable to the growers than opium. Beginning with, “Small peaches are expensive and bigger ones more expensive”, the Royal Projects encouraged the Hill Tribe peoples to change their agriculture from opium to other cash crops. To date, the success rate has been impressive, but now it may be under threat from current government policies in Thailand. Hill Tribe income growth, of the last twenty years, may be reversing through an over-reliance on the sustainability of tourism. For the Tai Hill Tribe peoples there is uncertainty coming from ongoing tourism successes…
