Local fabric making in Thailand must be through many steps starting from the raw materials which are mainly  from cotton and silk.

       Cotton is planted as the same time as rice, which takes approximately 6-7 months before harvesting cotton balls.  Then they will be dried up in the sun and processed in many steps: taking the seeds out of the cotton balls, making cotton balls soft by a bow- like tool, rolling soft cotton, making cotton into yarn,   .  Before dying yarn, it has to be through this process: soaking the yarn into gruel obtained as a by-product when rice is dry cooked, then the yarn is smashed with the club for the well mixed with the gruel.  Later it is dried up in the sun for lasting yarn.  Then the yarn will be processed by using equipment called Kwuak to strengthen the yarn.  After that the yarn will be prepared called Khon-making yarn before weaving.
          Silk is from the silk cocoons which have been dried up  in the sun and is boiled and made into yarn and then the silk yarn is bleached, dried up and after that it is made into longer yarn and dyed before  making it for the weaving.

          Dyeing in the past was made from the natural materials  by extracting from local existing materials such as barks, roots, fruit, flowers, leaves and from some certain plants e.g. lac, indigo, wa fruit, Hu-Kwang leaves, Tha Laeng or even from animals such as the lac insects.  In present, the synthetic dyes are widely use due to less cost and easy to use and color can be controlled easily.
The local weaving machines consist of the loom, brush, shuttle,