Thursday, August 22, 2013

First Draft: Royal Palanquin

Phra Wo Sivikakan state palanquin @ The National Bangkok Museum


Palanquin is a litter a class of wheeless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of persons. A conveyance formerly used especially in eastern Asia usually for one person that con- sists of an enclosed litter borne on the shoulders of men by means of poles

A simple litter, often called a king carrier, consists of a sling attached along its length to poles or stretched inside a frame.

The palanquin is the vehicle that extremely express the quality of Thai and represent in Thai traditional house version with all golden ornament on the pitch roof and seat that miniature the temple version and carry in a piece of architecture.

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