The Saturday Walking Street area around Wua Lai Road is famous
as a silversmithing area in Chiang Mai. There are two temples along the road
renowned for their silver reliefs and artwork plus numerous shops selling
silver decorations such as these. After almost three years of hearing the constant gentle tap-tapping as they work the metal I noticed for the first time last week that they have
started moving with the times and doing more than the usual traditional religious
subjects.
I’m slightly disappointed that the “red devil” on the
Manchester United FC shield hasn’t been changed to a mythical Thai figure such
as the Hongsa in the piece above, although perhaps this would make it look much
too close to the Liverpool FC emblem.
Photograph taken at “Saturday Walking Street”, Chiang Mai,
Thailand
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