Laos

Laos is known for the khaen mouth organ, supplementary-weft silk weaving, sticky rice cooking and Buddhist alms-giving rites.

Music & dance Textile & dress Food & cooking Spirituality & rites

Knowledge in this place

Khaen mouth organ music

Khaen mouth organ music

Playing a bundle of bamboo pipes with free reeds, blown and drawn to sound chords at once.

Lao silk weaving

Lao silk weaving

Adding extra weft threads on a frame loom to raise diamond and serpent motifs in the cloth.

Textile & dress

Sticky rice cooking

Sticky rice cooking

Soaking glutinous rice overnight and steaming it in a conical basket to eat by hand.

Tak bat alms-giving

Tak bat alms-giving

At dawn lay people kneel to place rice in the bowls of monks walking in single file.

Spirituality & rites