Lao art

Laotian Art often features Buddhist themes and includes such material forms as textiles, wood-carving and basket-weaving.

An Excavation at the Sisattanak Kiln Site By: François Lagirarde The production of woven and embroidered textiles is the most prolific of all traditional crafts in Laos.

Almost all regions of the country are suitable for the farming of cotton and mulberry trees, which are often planted on cooperative land with a view to providing raw materials for the wider community.

Succeeding generations developed more flexible fibres, with the invention of spinning which was used in different parts of the world to make yarn from wool, linen, cotton, or silk.

In Laos, many villages, however, produce organic dyes from plants, roots, insect, resin, and soil.