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The Tai of Laos include a number of different ethnic groups who are primarily valley and riverbank-dwelling peoples. These include the Tai Lao, Tai Lue, Tai Dam, and Tai Daeng, most of whom practice paddy rice farming and have adopted Theravada Buddhism. The Tai groups are famous for their silk and cotton textiles, handwoven on frame looms that are a ubiquitous sight under their stilted homes. Girls learn to spin cotton, reel silk, and weave at a young age, helping their mothers and female relatives with simple tasks at first and graduating to more complex designs and techniques as they gain experience. Textiles are used for tube skirts, shawls, blankets, bags, and ceremonial cloths.
TAEC works with Tai weavers of silk and cotton from Houaphan Province in northern Laos to Savannakhet Province in the south.
Learn more about the Tai Lue ethnic group in Champa Meuanglao Magazine.
