Royal Fold Arts and Crafts Centre at Bang Sai

Bangkok Dolphins' Guide
ATTRACTIONS IN & AROUND BANGKOK

Royal Fold Arts and Crafts Centre at Bang Sai
(Tel. 2258165-8, (035) 366092)

With an area of 114 acres, the Centre is located in Tambon Bung Yai, Amphoe Bang Sail Fammers from Ayutthaya as well as from other provinces undergo training in folk arts and crafts here. At this centre you will have a glimpse of how farmers in the four Regions live and work, how their products of arts and crafts are produced. The centre is under the Promotion of Supplementary Occupations and Related Technicques (SUPPORT) which was established under Royal Patronage on the 21stJuly 1976. Products and activities which can be seen here are; Fern Vien Basketry, Weaving Basketry. Wood Carving, Artificial Flowers, Hand-Woven Silk and Cotton, Silk Dyeing, Miniature Hand-Modelled Thai Dolls, Fumiture Making and Cloth-Made Products etc.

It is open every day (except Monday) from 8.30 am- 4.00 pm. Admission fee is 20 baht.

A source for further information in Bangkok is the Tourism Authority of Thailand, phone 226-0060. If you are calling from outside the country, that number will need to be prefaced by country code 66, city code 2. In the U.S. the Tourism Authority can be contacted at (312) 819-3990, fax (312) 565-0359; in Canada at (604) 733-4540, fax (604) 733-4599; in Sydney at 9247-7540, fax 9251-2465; and in London at (171) 499-7679, fax 629-5519.