The Creative Silk Group began its “Tak To Sai Jai Haeng Rak” project in 2014 in Charapat Subdistrict, Sikhoraphum District, Surin Province, a major silk producer supplying the province and selling domestically. Silk has thus become the primary source of income for the weavers’ families each month, in addition to their annual rice production.

The Kwan Chumchon Foundation also found that women weavers are at high risk of health impacts from dyeing, bleaching, and weaving. Toxins have been found to accumulate in their bodies, most of which may be due to pesticide-based agriculture and chemical dyeing. The Kwan Chumchon Foundation sent samples of silk dyes used by the weavers and found that most do not contain AZO. However, some, such as black and red, do contain AZO. Furthermore, lye washing is hazardous if inhaled without protective equipment. While there is no clear evidence that chemical dyeing causes immediate health effects on women weavers, some individuals who dye silk with chemical dyes have developed lung perforations due to unprotected use. An elderly person has died of lung cancer, despite having dyed silk in their household as a non-smoker.

Furthermore, women weavers suffer from asthma, fatigue, and bladder infections. Or pain from weaving for a long time. Furthermore, silk weavers are burdened with accumulated debts resulting from selling silk below cost. They lack sufficient savings to invest in warp threading each round of silk weaving, which costs an average of 15,000-20,000 baht per person. Therefore , “weaving quickly and selling quickly” has become a practice that is not conducive to good health, economic stability, and negatively impacts the environment, households, and communities.