Lisu patchwork- Lisu Cultural Heritage Center

Lisu patchwork- Lisu Cultural Heritage Center Please arrange an appointment to visit the center. Thank you.
กรุณานัดหมาย? Who are the Lisu? Lisu also live in China, Burma, and India.

Lisu Cultural Heritage Center (LCHC)

Lisu Cultural Heritage Center (LCHC) is the first place in Chiang Mai where visitors can view Lisu culture and heritage in all its varied aspects: ritual, music, livelihood, handicraft, and costume. In addition, the center holds a treasure trove of archival photographs of ethnic Lisu, the field notes of an anthropologist studying a particular Lisu village in C

hiang Rai province, as well as other documents related to the Lisu. The Lisu are one of the ethnic groups (hill tribes) in northern Thailand. They mostly live in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Son, and Tak provinces. The Lisu population all over the globe numbers about a million. There are two different groups among the Lisu, the flowery and the black. The flowery Lisu are mostly based in Thailand, whereas the black are based in China, Burma, and India. The differences between these Lisu groups are based on language, costume, and religion. Ethnic costumes

Highlights of a visit to the center include the multi-ethnic costumes on display, particularly Lisu women’s costumes. Visitors can observe the evolution of women’s costumes from 1972 to 2000. In addition, the center displays the distinctive embroidery of the Lisu: dancing tassels, leggings, traditional shoulder bags, aprons, silver designs and head decorations. Handmade products

The LCHC is dedicated to promoting and preserving Lisu handicrafts. Visitors can buy handicrafts made by villagers, especially those created by older ladies who painstakingly make the very beautiful traditional Lisu bags, a process done entirely by hand. Many of the handicrafts now available for purchase have been in steep decline in recent years and the LCHC hopes to revive these skills, breathing new life into traditional styles.

PANTS WITH POCKETS ARE ALREADY SOLD OUT! กางเกงพร้อมกระเป๋าด้านข้าง จำหน่ายไปแล้ว
27/07/2026

PANTS WITH POCKETS ARE ALREADY SOLD OUT!
กางเกงพร้อมกระเป๋าด้านข้าง จำหน่ายไปแล้ว

NOTICE! From Young Lisu Weaving Club. There will be a long holiday from tomorrow until Thursday, I am wondering if any o...
27/07/2026

NOTICE!

From Young Lisu Weaving Club.

There will be a long holiday from tomorrow until Thursday, I am wondering if any of you would like to participate Lisu weaving workshop (bag strap).

There will a representative from these young Lisu who have been practicing their skills from their mothers, grandmothers or even from their aunties.

It is a project that I have been working on to revive Lisu weaving culture. There are at least 8 members right now but I can’t invite them all due to the small space of the Lisu Center and of course the budget, too.

However, for this workshop, there will be four young people and one adult who will assist them when there is an issue.

Next month is going to be another group. It will be rotating like this until as long as there are enough numbers of people who would like to learn our weaving tradition and who would like to encourage young Lisu generation to look back at their disappearing tradition.

I am hoping to have more young Lisu people joining the club in the future, especially when they know there are people who value their talent on preserving their traditional weaving.

If you are interested:

The workshop includes drinks, village coffee, snack and Lisu lunch.

Date: 29 July 2029
Time: 9 - 5 pm.
Location: Lisu Center (Google map).

The cost… please message me (deposit is needed). Or call 0988138324.

Number of people for each workshop: 5

Lisu bag strap is yours if you can finish it by 5 pm.

If there are not enough people to participate the workshop, we will cancel and will return the deposit to you.

Deadline for the reservation: Tomorrow by 6 am, PLEASE.

It would be so nice of you if you can confirm soon so the young people and their guardians can plan their transportation from the village better.

Thank you for your support on the revival of Lisu weaving culture.

กางเกงลีซู เนื้อผ้าลินิน มีกระเป๋าด้านข้าง และไม่มีกระเป๋า สองตัว (ภาพ) สุดท้ายไม่มีกระเป๋าค่ะ สนใจสินค้าเหล่านี้ทักมาสอ...
22/07/2026

กางเกงลีซู เนื้อผ้าลินิน มีกระเป๋าด้านข้าง และไม่มีกระเป๋า สองตัว (ภาพ) สุดท้ายไม่มีกระเป๋าค่ะ สนใจสินค้าเหล่านี้ทักมา
สอบถามรายละเอียดได้นะคะ

Lisu linen fabric pants, with and without pockets. The last two are without pockets.

Please send me a message if you are interested in these products.

19/07/2026

การฟื้นฟูวัฒนธรรมการทอผ้าของชาติพันธุ์ลีซู
Reviving the weaving culture of the Lisu ethnic group

ปี 2523 เทียบกับปี 2569 ในหมู่บ้านดอยล้าน
1980 vs 2026 in Doi Lan village

ดนตรีโดย อะเลบ่าบ่า
Music by Alebaba

รูปภาพโดยโอโตเม่ ไกล์น ฮัทธิซิงค์
Photo by Otome Klein Hutheesing

17/07/2026

Workshop on making earrings led by a young Lahu woman. It was the day when there were only women so some of these naughty conversations made the workshop filled with laughter and giggles.

Some of them were able to learn to make a pair perfectly while some of them applied the techniques to make different styles or even thought of making different products from this technique.

“Don’t say make it beautiful because yours is not”.

“How did it (white polyester sheet) get into this small stuff?”

“She just stuffed it anyway”.

“It is such a small hole.. yes but there is a hole. It can get in anywhere. Yes.”

“Oh my.. you would be surprised if I could thread the needle”.

“What should I do with the leftovers? (white polyester sheet that they could not stuff in). I can’t put everything in”.

“Just stuff in”.
“No, I can’t get it in”.

“Did she manage to get everything in? I should have used my saliva to get everything in easily………It was so dry”.

“Can’t it be done gently?”.
“No, it did not get through”.

“Mine is small (small blue pair of example earring they were making) maybe even more difficult to stuff in”.

“I can’t stuff in. It is always torn”.

“This pair of earrings, I am going to wear them when I die”.

“Who took my long needle? I had thread in the needle too“.

17/07/2026

Weaving workshop among Doi Lan teenagers.

It was their first time to learn the whole process, except winding a skein where adults were helping them out when they experienced tangles of the thread. The rest of the process was mostly done by themselves.

They used to have more adults to help them guide the process but this time there was only one adult.

I learned that when there were many adults they often relied on them and they did not concentrate much.

This time each of them had to concentrate more. They had to choose their own colors of the threads and had to make sure that each process was done correctly or they had to redo the whole process. Sometimes they helped each other because some of them had more experiences than others.

Among five of them, only two of them had to redo the process of warping the thread because it was not possible to weave at all. One of them redid right away as she was so frustrated that she made a mistake and there was no mistake with her second round of practicing.

Each of them had learned which part of the process that confused them most and they became more aware of the mistakes.

This time the weaving loom was installed as well so they all could weave whenever they wished, with the equipment that was prepared particularly for them.

———
This community project is funded by Princess Sirindhorn Anthropology Center.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude for their support and seeing the value of reviving disappearing culture among young Lisu generations.

Lisu women with their Lisu purse. “I like it because it is washable. My old purse is already dirty and I can’t wash it”....
05/07/2026

Lisu women with their Lisu purse.

“I like it because it is washable. My old purse is already dirty and I can’t wash it”.

“I don’t want to use it because I don’t want it to get dirty yet”.

Sabida Thaised, Minister of Culture of Thailand is viewing Lisu purse together with the director of Princess Sirindhorn ...
03/07/2026

Sabida Thaised, Minister of Culture of Thailand is viewing Lisu purse together with the director of Princess Sirindhorn Anthropology Center.

Photo credits: Ministry of Culture and Princess Sirindhorn Anthropology Center.

Great appreciation to PSAC for providing a space for ethnic handicrafts to be seen by Thai politicians.

01/07/2026

Coin bag and computer bag.

Stay tuned for more colors and patterns.

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Chiang Mai
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