In village society textile are the most important expression of the creativity of women. The loom acts as a symbol of womanhood, its special significance acknowledged by men who will not touch a loom once it is set up and in use. Women gain spiritual merit from weaving ceremonial textiles for the monastery and robes for the monks. A skilled weaver is a respected member of the village and has some status within the monastic community.

The central plains are the fertile heartland of Thailand, a seemingly endless patchwork of rice fields, the traditional source of wealth, For 700 years a dependable watersupply has been maintained through complex systems fed

Weaving specialist textiles for the court in Bangkok is a tradition which survived the period of Westernisation. Today master weavers continue to produce superb 'matmi', many pieces as fine as those fashionable decades ago at court.

North Thailand has a landscape of mountains and fertile valleys where the Tai have settled over many centuries, cultivation rice as their main food, the women weaving textiles for clothing and household use. In the northern of Thailand the envelopment was suited to textile production: women grew dyes such as indigo, along the fertile river banks, or gathered dye ingredients form the forests; they also had an ample supply of river water for dyeing and processing yarn.

Handicraft is an unique culture of people in Tambon Viang Yong because of its beauty and traditional representation. A variety of cloth, Yok Dok Silk Colth has been done with delicady and with indigeneous since their ancestor's time. In 1983, a group of cloth weaving was formed. The group continued progressively both producing and selling. A lof of new designs have been created. Besides, the group acts as a middleman be collecting produces from weavers and does the sale for them. The most unique and beautiful cloth is the one woven with silver or gold-liked threads in their weaving.

In Thailand the production of silk and cotton was the work of women who cultivated cotton and gathered silk moths from the wild to use as breeding stock for sericulture. The harvested materials from local plants and trees which they used to make dyes, and mordanted the yarn using river mud, plant extracts and local clays. They worked at their looms as other household duties allowed, stopping at the times of planting and harvesting the rice crop. when all able hands were needed in the fields.