Handmade in rural Thailand



Nicola Barry owner of The Christmas Company at Burford and Somjit outside Somjit's house (left).

Somjit working from home checking Tartan Father Christmas (above).


Yooy making Circular Orbs at home while her mother-in-law (right) rocks the baby to sleep.




Often husbands and older children will help in the afternoons (left).

Chuey works hard in order to help with the family income enabling her daughter to continue her education (below).

The decorations are designed in London and the designs are then sent to Thailand.

Yupin working on a new design of ballet shoes (left).


Sutep cutting shapes (above).

Now we have a machine for cutting. In the early days all pieces were cut by hand!


Yaowaret has been sewing St. Nicolas decorations for six years (left).


Aumnuay doing final quality control checks using a toothbrush! (left).
Prang being trained (below).




Yupa attaching St Nicolas labels to the finished Mary Queen of Scots decorations (left).