Hi. Everywhere I see Thai arts in the form of moulded from cement or similar. You can get them with various motives - animals, flowers, Thai cultures, etc., as well as colours but I like them natural. I'd like to get some of them for our house, but I think the prices asked by the shops in HH are quite high. Can anyone recommend a shop selling these arts at reasonable prices? I'd also like a couple of the stone figures.
Thanks for any tips.
Thai arts
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Re: Thai arts
I'm a bit puzzled about what exactly you are looking for cheng - do you mean garden sculptures? If so just try one of the garden centres.
But for indoors... usually the ornamented/coloured stuff is wood, and carved. Some can be very large - as the horse/other animal figures to be found outside a store just out North on Petkasem, around the vicinity of Golden Place I think.
Beware if buying larger 'wood' carvings as they can in fact sometimes have a cement core. Solid teak should float in water.
But for indoors... usually the ornamented/coloured stuff is wood, and carved. Some can be very large - as the horse/other animal figures to be found outside a store just out North on Petkasem, around the vicinity of Golden Place I think.
Beware if buying larger 'wood' carvings as they can in fact sometimes have a cement core. Solid teak should float in water.
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Re: Thai arts
Thanks. It's the outdoor sculptures I'm looking for - couldn't find a word for them 
) There are so many shops selling them & I find they're asking quite high prices for them. I'm wondering if anyone in the forum know of a shop they can recommend. We're still very new in HH and are relying on the experience of others )
Thanks.
) There are so many shops selling them & I find they're asking quite high prices for them. I'm wondering if anyone in the forum know of a shop they can recommend. We're still very new in HH and are relying on the experience of others )Thanks.
Re: Thai arts
That sort of stuff, 'culture sculptures' I call them, like the sandstone images that people put in the garden or hang from walls of say some traditonal Thai woman with hands clasped in a 'Wai' etc are going to be expensive in an area like HH.
It's probably the sort of thing you should have a look for when traveling about as you often see the shops of the craftsman on the side of a road, BBK/Saraburi perhaps or even take a trip, as a sort of adventure holiday, up to a place called Dan Kwian pottery village next to Nakhon Ratchasima (northeast of BBK), cheap as you like but understand it's a long way.
There's probably somewhere nearer of course but in the areas like HH then you'd be paying top $ for that sort of stuff and I believe this stuff can get expensive too.
It's probably the sort of thing you should have a look for when traveling about as you often see the shops of the craftsman on the side of a road, BBK/Saraburi perhaps or even take a trip, as a sort of adventure holiday, up to a place called Dan Kwian pottery village next to Nakhon Ratchasima (northeast of BBK), cheap as you like but understand it's a long way.
There's probably somewhere nearer of course but in the areas like HH then you'd be paying top $ for that sort of stuff and I believe this stuff can get expensive too.
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