Each year, a festival is held in January at the Bang Sai Royal Folk Arts & Crafts Center in Ayutthaya. The fair showcases, Thailand's cottage industries and craft products, and allows visitors the opportunity to buy locally made products, view demonstrations of Thai folk arts, and enjoy live entertainments.

The Bang Sai Royal Folk Arts & Crafts Center is a part of the SUPPORT Foundation (Promotion of Supplementary Occupations and Related Techniques), under the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen.

Set on an area of 285 rai (14 acres), this Royally supported art and craft center is located at Bung Yai, Bang Sai District, 24 km from Bang Pa-in. The center offers a glimpse of how farmers in the four regions of Thailand live and work, and how Thai folk arts and crafts are produced. It also offers training to farmers and villagers in folk arts and crafts as a means to keep traditional art forms alive.

Products and activities on view include fern vien basketry, woven basketry, artificial flowers, hand-woven silk and cotton, silk dyeing, wood carving, miniature hand-modeled dolls, furniture production and cloth-made products. The products are sold at the center and all branches of Chitrlada Stores.

To get there, take a bus from Bangkok's Northern Bus Terminal (Tel +66 2 272-0299) or take a boat up the Chao Phraya River. The center is open 8.30 am to 4.00 pm daily except Monday. The admission fee is 20 baht per person. For more information, call +66 35 366-092 or +66 2 225-8165.

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