garment . However , it is a popular Thai handicraft . Simple garments of dark , plain , medium-weave cotton , straight-cut but with shaped arms and neckline . Trimmed at edges , around bottom , on pockets and / or down front with bright embroidered flowers . The garment can be of any length and may zip in front or back .Traditional Thai skirts A wrap-around cylindrical skirt made of approximately tw.o yards of fabric seamed into a tube and lapped to fit the wearer as a long skirt . It can be of plain or striped silk or woven metallic thread in silk , with decorative border .Traditional Thai wall hangings Rectangles of Thai medium-woven cotton with one-half inch fringed edge , fastened to painted wooden poles . The hangings are trimmed with classical Thai motifs such as Thai dancers , elephants or royal