“Niak-Naka” An Original Pattern on Mudmee Silk of Thai-Khmer People in Surin Province (เนี๊ยคเรี๊ยด : นาคราช) อัตลักษณ์เชิงศิลป์บนผืนไหมบริบทวัฒนธรรมกลุ่มคนไทย เชื้อสายเขมรเมืองสุรินทร์

Abstract

The article named “Niak-Naka” an original pattern on Mudmee silk of Thai-Khmer people in Surin province. The article aims to present important and connecting history between Surin, Thai-Khmer people, traditional beliefs, Mudmee silk handicraft, and beliefs of Naga “traditional cultural pattern on Mudmee silk, the transmission of cultural symbols conceptual communication of Thai-Khmer weavers. The results of the study showed that silk handicrafts are like tools to pass on cultural symbols through women through instruction, socialization, absorption, and enculturation from mother to child compared to passing on symbols of thought, belief, values, including the ideas, belief, meaning of the ritual which came from the traditional beliefs that affected the way of life of Thai-Khmer people in Surin province. Therefore, the Naga symbol is the media to present the 3 worldviews reflected by Thai-Khmer weavers. 1) The symbol of traditional belief 2) The symbol represented the idea of the weavers based on the cultural and art design, and 3) The symbols of cultural meaning. Naga symbol is Thai-Khmer wisdom that using to communicate by teaching to their children. Naga in Mudmee silk is hidden as the abstract wisdom through traditional belief like the set of thought pattern which ancestor use to convey by absorbing, teaching through women as using a cultural belief as a tool for cultivating the social values, they respected and practiced so they are expressed in practice (Do’s and don’ts) for living and teach the children to follow in the social tradition of Thai-Khmer people.