Sunday, January 13, 2013

PHAI THAI




Introduction

Phai-Thai or Asper, The plant is located in GR/MINEAE family or scientific name "Dendro Calamus asper Baker". Phai or Bamboo is a plant that is common in China.

Later, Asper has been popular and expand to grown it. And become to one career in agriculture, the Department of Agriculture has developed a method cultivation Asper. Asper horticulture an important crop in Thailand, main purpose aim to sell a shoot used to transform the food supply. But when have implantation increase to shoot has a low price not worth a labor to cut and carried down from the mountains. So villager let the shoot grown to bamboo, that use time around 3 years, so it can cut the stems to use it. By cut height from floor around 30 - 100 cm. 

For this reason, we can supply raw materials to create objects without stalks, bamboo carving is not difficult.  In the first, we have try and practice the product by self and that let we can learn technique to developed the bamboo to be own product now. Including published a guest lecturer by interest to tourists and students of various schools.

Initially, the main objective of bamboo carving to man face is display-only. Later received feedback from buyers that would otherwise have been paying more than display-only such as to be vase and carving to berry pots or an ashtray etc.