Chiang Rai Province - Art

Art

  • The area is known for its traditional Lanna music with instruments such as the sau (fiddle) and kaen (panpipe).
  • The north of Thailand has its own distinctive art and crafts including bronze casting, carving, mulberry paper, Buddha Images and sign painting.
  • Local handmade items popular with tourists are clay charcoal stoves, tea sets, brooms and dust-pans, and umbrellas for shade and decoration.
  • Some of the craftswork is made for spiritual purposes.

Read more about this topic:  Chiang Rai Province

Famous quotes containing the word art:

    “A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “How dost, my boy? Art cold?
    I am cold myself. Where is this straw, good fellow?
    The art of our necessities is strange
    And can make vile things precious.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000.... I shall survive as a curiosity.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)