Unique design of Thai Karen Hill tribe silver product

Although a smith may able to copy any tribes design, most of the tribes are now borrowing so freely from one another that is has become almost impossible to identify the design of any silver piece as traditional to any one tribe. Some of the traditional designs are being lost or interchange with other tribes because poor tribespeople have been selling their jewelry in exchange for trade goods or to tourists for 20 years.

The lowland and tourist influence to the new designs. They bring sample of modern design to ask hilltribes people to mix their own design with modern silver .