This village of three hundred families lies just outside Chiang Saen, near the Mekong River in northeast Thailand. Unlike some of the silk villages in the region, San Tad farms its own silk worms, which includes cultivating mulberries for worm-feed, hand-harvesting the silk, and meticulously cleaning its sticky threads. Some of this work is government-supported as part of an eco-tourism homestay project, but so far, the initiative has generated very little additional revenue.