Michi Gallery

Description:

• This small shop on the top floor of the Nantawan Arcade gallery specializes in the craft of papermaking. Artisan Chitlada Thaveesri designs, and has manufactured locally, different grades of sa paper (mulberry bark), traditionally made to copy Buddhist scriptures. The cottonlike, off-white paper is sold in large sheets, bound into diaries and sketch pads (250B [$10]) with dried vines and silk cords, cut into foldout books for calligraphy, or made into stationery or gift cards (from 70B [$2.80]). Covers are often dyed or stamped or have rice kernels or wild flowers embedded in them. It's an impressive collection, with many reasonably priced items.
  
  
• © Frommer's 2013