Lifestyle

The people’s life in datum is detemined by geography, climate,naturalresources, faith and social condetions, Most people in Satun earn their living by fishing a long the coast which is furtile with aquatic animals, some of them produce local handicrafts from natural raw material. Type of residence is the ambination between the southren region Thai and Muslim and "Chau-Lae" are native people who have their own faith.

Fishing in Satun
The coast of Satun is 144.80 kilometres long with 434 kms . Area for fishing. There are 4,675 families who live on fishing with their own tools, produced by localwisdom.
1. Fishing hooks are popular fishing tools. The types of fishinghooks according to their usage are:
Lining fishing hooks – many fishing hooks with baits and short fishing lines, tied one end to a long string, stretched on the surface of water. The baits will be left dipping under water for 6-12 hours, then fishes at the hooks will be collected.
Stuck fishing hooks – springing fishing rods stuck firmly into the ground leaning forward, dipping fishing lines with hooks and baits under water. Their method can be used both in the canals, rivers or in the sea and the baits can be small fishes, piees of fishes, millipedes, squids, earthworms, frogs, etc.
Throwing fishing hooks – the fishing line should be 30-50 metres long with a fishing kook and bait one end of the line tied firmly with a pole when the other end with bait and fishing kook is thrown out, into water.

2. Fishing traps – made from strips of bamboos or fronds, tied with strips of rattan to form a cylindrical shop to trap fish in flowing water such as a ditch a long the edges of the ricefield.

3. Fishstake – using long bamboo, to build something like a stable, leaving the entrance open 20 that fishes may enter the stable and are caught with fishingnets. This method depends on the wind blowing the wours and shaking the bamboo and this scares the fishes. The fishes will escape through the open way, prepared for them and rush into the nets. So, this is the fishermen’s local wisdom, developed from natural condition. Moreover, fishermen in Satun have developed raising fishes in floating floating baskets which brings them good incomes.

Producing earthenware in Kuan done
The earthenware production group is at No. 9, Wises mayura Road Muaung District, Satun Province. The procedures of producing begins from clay kneading, clay beating to form the shapes and produce the pieces of work as designed. The earthenware and the tools have become the exported products in One Tambol one Product Project.

Producing mat partition
Mat partition is a local handicraft in “one tambol one product project” at “Bam Kai Ruammit” Kuan KaLhong district. Producing matpartition is a basketry work that must be done with care every piece of work is beautiful and tough. The rawmaterial for this handicraft is bamboo, especially the type called “Phai phak” (Cephalostachyum pergracile) This bamboo is tall with green learns and no torns, the biggest one may have a five – inch diameter.
The bamboo with be split into fine strips for basketry work. Each strip will be about 2 cms wide, a long piece of bamboo can be split into 12 splits, using a tool called “Jampa” consisting of a cone with sharp blades fixed 2 cms from each other.
The bamboo strips will be used atternately between the back strips and front strips in basketry work to show beautiful decorative designs of fine handicratts.
The basketery work needs the producers’ knowledge and experience in selecting decorative designs or patterns so as to produce a tough, beautifull pieces of art work such as pattern “Lai Look Gaw” (squares of different dize4 place one upon another with the smaller one in the center ) or pattern “Pheek yiew” (some figures like the wings of a hawk ). The products of this basketery work can be used in decorating the walls of houses, buildings, meeting rooms or ceilings. These basketery works, nowadays have been well known in stun, some provinces near by and neighbouring countrion suchas Malaysia and Singapore.