Handicraft Textile

I need more experience and knowledge of hand-made production

Current textile products in this village

This week, we visited to a village of Toumlane district, Saravanh province in Laos to research for new coming project about textile. Because the time when I started working in this project was already half way of our project's period, I missed the chance to see the stage of product development, which is how we make new unique, local and valued-added product.

I feel process in ward is not difficult to understand for me. It's almost same of what I have done in AIESEC. Point of this stage is below (Same process of the way to make plan).
1.Know the strength and weakness or current products (resource analysis).
2.What makes them limit, or what is Opportunities for producers.
3.Communicate villagers to know their wants or problems
4.Make image of the new product with villagers (sometimes need to facilitate them)

But the most difficult point of this stage is "Idea of new products", and it's for sure coming from knowledge and experience of smiler product and project.

Do you know what kind of Textile has valuable one??
Do you know what kind of weaving style is it on pictures and how much valuable??
Do you know how to die a natural color??
Do you know what kind

This experience makes me realized what I have to study to be expert,
and one the same time makes me realized
the way to utilize my past valuable experience in my future.
No body told me what I have to learn here (not like company),
But I always have to be hungry of knowledge

The last product of our project to be craeted

The last product of our ODOP project to be produced

Can you imagine what they are making from the above pictures?? If so, I can say you are really familiar to social work and maybe you have potential to be social worker.

They are making OVEN for "Pottery" !!!
Today I went to a village in Atsaphone district of Savannakhet, LAO PDR to see and experience of Pottery project. Last year, we invited OTOP expert from Thailand to train how to make an OVEN for small Pottery like the pictures below. But because all of the producers are farmer and when the rainy season comes, they have to work for firm, so we couldn't continue to make OVEN.

You know, to make a OVEN for pottery is not that easy, at first we need to dig sooo much soil, bring it from place to place, mix with cover of rice to be sticky, put it in a machine, cut it, make the shape proper, dry it and put all of it together to make OVEN. But we need more than at least 300 oven stones, but we can make around 40 stones every 3 days. And as you can imagine, it's extremely hard work, and if the quality and shape of the stone is not proper, we can't use it for a piece of the oven. It's like a making pyramid, and they have to do it with only around producers.

As a social worker, of cause I tried to do the same action of producers for a day. I was feeling I was doing resistance training when I did in my high school days for hand ball... Then for the next three days no wonder I had muscle pain.　

When we saw a products, normally we just see the function or design.
But once we knew the history and process of it,
we can love the product more and know the hidden value of it.

To know the value of a product,
to experience of production is the best way

雄揮 / Yuki / ยูกิ