HEMP SAITHONG

Nuansri Promjai of Hemp Saithong (Golden Sand Hemp Fiber Community Enterprise) learnt to knit using natural hemp material for her personal use. Over time, a group of interested people from her village in Maerim, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand gathered to work with embroidering, knitting, threading and developing products from hemp, a plant that grows in the highlands of northern Thailand. Unwoven hemp was also developed and combined with knitting to create garments, and other accessories like hats, coloured with natural dyes from teak leaves, krakok leaves, kwao flowers and ebony fruits.