We started with one salvaged door and a borrowed loom.
Teak & Twine grew out of a shophouse on Charoenrat Road, a few minutes' walk from the Nawarat Bridge. Pim had been repairing old teak furniture for the guesthouses along the river; Anucha kept a frame loom by the window for the cotton he brought down from his family's fields in San Kamphaeng. Neighbours kept asking to watch, then to try. So we cleared the front room, built six benches, and started teaching.
Everything we work with has a history before it reaches us. Our timber is reclaimed, mostly old floor planks and shutters that would otherwise be burned. Our yarn is spun from Northern Thai cotton and coloured with indigo, ebony pods, and mango bark in the small dye kitchen out back. We are a working studio first and a shop second, so on any given morning you will find shavings on the floor and a pot of dye on the stove.
The idea has never changed: slow work, made in daylight, with your own hands. You leave with something you made and a fair sense of how much patience it took.
