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June 14, 2019 | Last Modified: 2019

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Varni Craft or Varni Homestay is a homestay that can convey stories of people lifestyle in the community through krajood handicraft. At Varni Southern Wickery community, the local experts will teach you how to weave them to make a usable product such as coin bags or basket.

Responsibility

A collection of the designs by a local artisan is environmentally friendly with surroundings. They mostly use resources are nearby them such as krajood. Which is wildly grown in the area and it is very strong and has an attractive surface finish. People in Pattalung in the south of Thailand have used krajood, a kind of seagrass, to make basketry for more than 200 years.

Business Case

They bring cultural heritage and local wisdom into the design under the concept of 'creative economy'. Also, develop potentiality of the staff in the village in technique design and social entrepreneurship to be a sustainable project which able retreat the social trouble and promote networking between entrepreneurs from the local community to community income.

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Varni Craft or Varni Homestay is a homestay that can convey stories of people lifestyle in the community through krajood handicraft. At Varni Southern Wickery community, the local experts will teach you how to weave them to make a usable product such as coin bags or basket.

A collection of the designs by a local artisan is environmentally friendly with surroundings. They mostly use resources are nearby them such as krajood. Which is wildly grown in the area and it is very strong and has an attractive surface finish. People in Pattalung in the south of Thailand have used krajood, a kind of seagrass, to make basketry for more than 200 years.

They bring cultural heritage and local wisdom into the design under the concept of 'creative economy'. Also, develop potentiality of the staff in the village in technique design and social entrepreneurship to be a sustainable project which able retreat the social trouble and promote networking between entrepreneurs from the local community to community income.

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