Last year, my husband and I spent three weeks backpacking around Thailand as our "honeymoon" and I fell madly in love. We'd finally gotten married, and now my husband had to compete with a whole country! The people, the culture, the food, the landscape... and the crafts. Oh! The crafts. Night bazaars filled with the most beautiful handcrafted things...
That said, it should be no surprise that I like to peek at what is being sold on Etsy from the Land of Smiles. And when I stumbled across Thaitied, well, I'm now even more in love. Thaitied is a group of young designers in the Northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai, creating modern clothes with a very traditional influence. Much of their line is made by pairing natural fibers like hemp and cotton with gorgeous vintage batik and embroidery from the Hmong hill tribes of Northern Thailand. The result? Beautiful and very wearable. Love.
Oh yeah, and Thailand? Go there. I know it is far, but you won't regret the trip.
Liz
Grotyohann is a co-founder of cosa verde,
a marketplace for handmade,
environmentally-conscious goods.
