The Lao Textile Museum is situated within a large compound in Vientiane’s Chantaboury District. The museum is located about 3km northeast of the National Circus,open from 9am to 4pm.

There are actually four Lao houses on stilts, more like an outdoor museum, with a barn storing a sugar cane press, farm tools and wooden gongs introducing a treasure trove of folk art and crafts in original surroundings. Indochina travel

Here you will find folk and collectible textiles, accessories, fabric, and fiber art materials from many corners of the globe, along with fascinating stories of indigenous artisans and ancient techniques used in traditional and modern ways.

Handicrafts in Lao Textile Museum

Underneath the raised house there are old looms and antique spinners that you would not find in use anywhere today. Upstairs, textiles are hung on the walls or are simply stacked in cupboards. The collection has some stunning pieces, with several made by different ethnic minority groups.

Beginning as a private museum, established by the family that runs Kanchana Boutique, Lao Textile Museum has subsequently become something of a Lao cultural centre, with the help of several foreign NGOs. Here, forty Lao artisans hand-weave exquisite works of art – wall hangings, scarves, furnishings – in 100% silk. Thanks to the combination of modern and ancient local techniques and designs in textiles, the workshop has revived interest in Laotian weaving and brought it bang up-to-date. Travel to Laos

The beauty of this museum

Lao Textiles is an oasis in the desert of travel detritus that collects over the years. The techniques used are sophisticated and is potentially one of the most complex weaving techniques that exists. It requires a high level of perseverance and artistic talent to create exquisite fabrics, whose colors are natural products dyes. The quality of workmanship is amazing, and clearly some of the best weaving you will find in South East Asia.

Textiles of the Lao-Tai and Hmong prove some of the most popular among travelers, and many visitors to this royal land flock to Laos Textiles in downtown Vientiane to watch young women create these incredible fabrics by hand.

Lao textile

In addition to a wooden house filled with looms and antique Lao textiles representing several ethnic groups, the museum also offers courses in weaving and dyeing, and a shop.

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