Baan Kang Wat

Discover Baan Kang Wat, a charming arts and crafts village in Chiang Mai. Explore handmade treasures, cozy cafés, art workshops, and a vibrant local community amidst lush greenery. Perfect for art lovers and culture seekers!

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TAGTHAi
28 January 2025

The Baan Kang Wat project can suit you if you like cuteness, naughtiness, or minimalistic style. Shopaholics have to pin and come here. Hip products, including clothes, home decor, silverware, and weaving products, are available. All of these are handmade. If you like unique-style items, don’t miss it.


Bookoo Studio: Buy nature-themed ceramic crafts

Bookoo Studio
Bookoo Studio

Fall in love with ceramic crafts made with natural materials at Bookoo Studio. The studio focuses on natural beauty and uses wood to mix with ceramic to create quirky crafts. The products range from tea cups and coffee mugs to dolls and home decor items, as well as accessories. If you want to unleash your inner artist, you can join the ceramic workshop to create your one. The session is 3 hours for only 850 baht. You will get to paint, make a whistle from clay, and make a spoon to take home with you.

 

Opening Time: Tue – Sun 10:00 – 18:00

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All Day Craft Market: Visit Saturday chic-craft market

All Day Craft Market
All Day Craft Market
All Day Craft Market

If you like something different, come to the craft market in Baan Kang Wat project held every Saturday. Prepare money to shop for chic crafts, handmade designs, home decor, and cool-art handmade. Most importantly, all items have a unique style! This market is an open area for craft-loving people to have a booth showing their works; such as clothing, bags, jewelry, food, beverages, etc. The photo-aholics will be amazed at every beautiful corner throughout the project which is decorated in chic style.

 

Opening Time: Sat 10:00 – 18:00

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Run Ga Run: The product focuses on Minimal embroidery and natural fibers

Run Ga Run
Run Ga Run
Run Ga Run

‘Run Ga Run’ is the clothing brand named by bringing Rungarun (Rung-A-Run), the owner's name to re-space becoming Run Ga Run! The minimalistic product is designed with colorful embroidery in a gimmick style to be the highlight of the brand. Intending to produce 100% natural products, the brand therefore controls the production entirely by working with the villagers in Mae Ai District. 

 

Beginning with planting cotton then being woven into fabric for sewing and growing dyeing crops to make own-product colors. Even the embroidery threads are all dyed by themselves! Until the design process with pencil before embroidery by hand. It is available for all ages, from clothes, bags, and hats to matching outfits to wear every day. All are colorful embroidery with the most unique cute details!

 

Opening Time: Tue – Sun 10:00 – 18:00

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Murf: Transform to a minimal girl with simple-white themes

Murf
Murf
Murf

A little bit more. Those who like the chic style have to go shopping at ‘Murf’. You will be wondering about the ultimate tone control because everything in this shop is only white. Do not think that the clothes are bright white because the color is the original color of Salu fabric. Guarantee no added-color dyeing. The fabric feature is not very tightly woven so it allows air to ventilate well. 

 

Perfect for Thailand’s hot weather! It can be combined with a simple pattern for all occasions or matched with other items. Both all-white or colors will look quite cool!

 

Opening Time: Tue – Sun 10:00 – 18:00

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Keesalak: Buy handmade jewelry made from stone and leather

Keesalak
Keesalak
Keesalak

Rawness of natural stones and leather resulted in cool accessories that are instantly wearable. Keesalak uses the shape of the stone as the starting point, then lets imagination paint the design to bring the stone to life. If you like unique stones, you will love Keesalak accessories. Each piece is made with a beautiful stone, creativity, and craftsmanship to show in wonderful necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. The details are meticulous as made by Sukhothai gold craftsmanship to create delicate curls and curves. Besides jewelry, Keesalak also has various lucky stones for good luck.

 

Opening Time: Tue – Sun 10:00 – 18:00

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Baan Lek Lamai: Shopping for home decor items inspired by grandma’s basketry

Baan Lek Lamai
Baan Lek Lamai
Baan Lek Lamai

If you want a background-story brand, come here. Baan Lek Lamai offers many handmade home decor items. The story behind this brand is a granddaughter who saw her grandmother doing basketry work. She was inspired and tried to add a modern twist to her grandmother’s creations, resulting in white designs that appear simple but have interesting details with a touch of heritage. The items range from bamboo mobiles and home decor items enthused by chicken coops. There are also woven bags redesigned to have a chic and contemporary look.

 

Opening Time: Tue – Sun 10:00 – 18:00

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