Lanna Cultures & Traditions (cont.):
In latest article we presented many ‘Lanna Rituals Related to The Patient’ which quite related to their daily life. Today the article is closer to their daily life than ever. If someone who have traveled to the northern of Thailand or seen some Lanna cultural performances, they may like and be interested in the Lanna original costume both for ladies and gentlemen. So today Thai Burmese Crafts will present a Lanna Culture: Lanna Costume.
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| Picture of Lanna Costume of Ladies and Gentlemen |
- Lanna Costume, from the past since reign of King Mengrai (see Lanna Craft I: Lanna History), Lanna people wear the similar clothing which presented out their unique culture as follows:
Lanna Ladies Costume: The bare breast of a suburb woman was common in the past. She might have only light color cloth to use with, such as wrapping the breast, or hanging with her neck, wearing as Sabai (a cloth wearing type of Siam), etc. The blouse wearing came popular in very late period of Lanna. The blouse would be handcrafted sewing cotton cloth, typically white color from cotton. For an adult, she would wear a round-necked blouse, curved sleeves, five seam stitching, fit to body. Moreover she would wear the under-blouse as a sleeveless t-shirt with the same sewing method as the blouse.
A woman would wear a long striped skirt-like dress called ‘Sinn’. The fabric of Sinn would be striped single seam, and the color was dyed with vegetable colors in red, purple, etc. There would be a connected bottom-end cloth to connect with the main Sinn, the color might be black. The other end of main Sinn, which would be worn at the woman’s waist, usually was sewed with white color cloth. Later, when there was loom development which enabled whole Sinn cloth production without connected sewing, Lanna ladies favored this kind of Sinn and change to another alternative colors mixing with many patterns which were popular till present day.
Lanna Gentlemen Costume: In the past, Lanna men admired tattoo designs from waist to knee. The girls would ignore any bare hip men, since they believe that those were cowards. A Lanna man would wear cotton cloth which color was alternated black and white. There were three wearing methods; first, normal wear by tuck at center of waist and the remainder was hanged from the waist, second, catch and tuck at the waist as the first method, but the remainder was passed under the body (between two legs) to tuck at the back (of waist), third, for fit tight purposes, such as fighting or hard working or riding a buffalo, he would wear very tight with both sides of the hips showing the tattoo. For these three wearing methods, the man would bare the chest. Some Lanna men wear pants which were similar pattern to Chinese one. There were short and long pants which sewed with handmade cotton.
Lanna men in the past did not like to wear shirts. In the cold weather, they will use some long cloth to cover the body. The color of this cloth was dyed with vegetable dyes, i.e. indigo, ebony, jackfruit, etc. Later they wore round-necked shirts which short or long sleeves with throughout buttons in front called ‘Moh-Hom (in Thai)’ or Indigo-shirt.
In addition, there might be some apparel for some jobs or some occasions, such as hat, belt, shoes, and other accessories of rich people.
Today recommended Crafts/Handmade Products:
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| 100% Cotton Traditional Thai Daishiki - Royal Purple and African Gold Design (size LARGE 44-46) |
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| Thai Foot Massage Stick |
(To be continued)
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