The “Woven dialects” exhibition showcased textiles from the different areas of Thailand. Queen Sirikit and other members of the Thai Royal Family visited remote areas in Thailand where they purchased textiles and showed them to people around the world.
- Mat mii is the Thai name for ikat, in which the pattern is tie-dyed onto the weft threads before weaving.
- Chok is a discontinuous supplementary weft brocade- that is, the pattern wefts are woven only in the localized areas where they are needed. Chok is the textile heritage of the Tai Yuan people, who now live in both North and Central Thailand.
- Phrae wa is an elaborately patterned silk brocade shoulder cloth, traditionally with a deep red ground, that uses both chok (discontinuous) and khit (continuous) brocading techniques.
- Khit is a continuous supplementary weft brocade that is, the pattern is created by an extra weft thread carried all the way across from side to side.
- Cotton textile woven by hand
- Batik textiles are patterned using a wax-resist dyeing technique.
- Hill Tribe Textiles – The minority peoples of the northern Thai hills have distinctive clothing, with each group having its own specific combination of garment styles, materials, and decorative styles and techniques.
- Thai-style embroidery
- Phaa yok is a silk and metal-thread brocade, traditionally woven in Nakhon Si Thammarat province.