Research & Article

The subject of this paper is to bring to light forty years of in-depth research on Tai textiles and clothing in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos), Thailand and  Vietnam  to  demonstrate  that  clothing  and  the  historical  transformation  of practices of social production of textiles are best classified not by ethnicity, but by geographical provenance. The pervading factor in provenance is the social structure of communities of each region.