Hill Tribal Crafts IV

Hill Tribes (cont.):

- Hmong or Miao (Hmong people dislike others to call them Miao.), in fact, Hmong is a sub-group of the Miao ethnicity in southern China. Miao contains of four sub-groups: Ke xiong, Hmu, Hmao and Hmong. They lived in China around 3,000 years ago and migrated to Lao, Vietnam, Burma and Thailand. For Hmong in Thailand, they live in 12 of the Northern provinces.

Except from agriculture, Hmong people do household industry on Crafts, such as handmade cloth weaving, handmade silverware, etc.

Products to recommend today are handmade bags of Hmong. (please see in 'Tribal Crafts (Thailand & Burma)' category of Craft World shop in this blog.)

For example: A unique Thai 100% handmade tote Handbag is from the Hmong Tribe. Pink multi-color embroidery and sequins material. Thick and firm canvas, cotton lining outside.  Opening; Zippered top closure. So beautiful and strong.

(To be continued)