This website can be used to purchase high-quality home items, purses, handbags, vests, personal accessories, cards and other items hand-stitched by Akha hilltribe people who live in mountain villages in northern Thailand. Final product assembly is done by the Akha Crafts Center staff in Chiang Rai. NOTE: All proceeds from the sale of these items go to the Akha hilltribe women who hand-stitch the items, and to pay for the staff/operating expenses of the Akha Crafts Center in Chiang Rai, Thailand (overseen by American Baptist missionary Ruth Fox) where item assembly is done.