Where is Laos? Lao Textile Museum KANCHANA HOME

About Lao Silk
Taideng and Taiphouan
Museum exhibit
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Inside the museum there are more than 1,000 ancient silk fabrics from all ethnic groups in Laos.

These include many ancient silk fabrics from the Taideng tribe from Houaphan province and the Taiphouan group of Xieng Khuang.

Beside this there are many types of objects used in Lao people's daily life in the past.

Used for decoration and show in religious ceremonies and other important events.

Used for decoration in religious rites and engagement ceremony.

There are many types of copperware.
Most of them will be used in different events.
These include antique coins, cooking utensils and traditional musical instruments.

These displays cover housewares, rattan baskets, fishing equipment, equipment for hunting animals, palm leaf manuscripts, and using things in colonial regime.

All these things are exhibited in the wooden house, which it was specially designed like a traditional Lao house at the Lao Textile Museum.
At the Lao Textile Museum there are also one ancient house, which is more than 100 years old, and two antique rice storage houses.

In addition, the owners of Lao Textile Museum are also involved in such traditional arts as dyeing fabrics using natural colours, weaving, cooking traditional Lao food, making Lao alcohol and organising religious ceremonies for visitors.