Anne Blinks reports on a survey of commercial weaving workshops in Bangkok in autumn 1957, which found eight loom types in use. She describes a traditional Siamese two-harness loom and a "pattern-loom" used in a Laotian-owned workshop, in which sticks and string heddles transfer pattern sheds to the warp and produce results like a drawloom. The text explains step by step how the pattern sticks, sword and tabby binder shots are used to weave silk and wrapped-gold fabrics, and compares the looms with types in Ling Roth's Studies in Primitive Looms. Photographs show the looms in operation and a border detail of a traditional Siamese fabric.