silk workshop
The 76-tears-old has been making silk for 63 years. Today, Manasananas is one of two remaining Ban Krua Nua silk weavers who once supplied their homemade fabrics to Jim Thompson in the early days of the 1950s and '60s.
Hidden inside a small alley in the community, Manasanan's century-old wooden house accommodates his silk-weaving workshop.
Now, Manasnan has only two workers. One operates the loom and the other does the dyeing. They don't work every day but come whenever Manasnan receives an order. In the prime of his business, he had more than 20 workers who worked in three shifts.