The knitting café is a new business which has begun in Thailand. A place for people who love knitting, it provides equipment and classes for beginners. We have more in this report from Thai News Agency.

The knitting café's concept is to provide a place like home for knitting lovers, including housewives, white collar workers, students, and children. The shop, named “Big Knit”, is located in Soi Sukhumvit 49. It’s owned by 24-year-old Nice Tansrisakul, who turned her passion into a business.

Nice Tansrisakul Manager, “Big Knit” said “Our shop is a mix of a knitting house and a café. We offer a homemade bakery, ice cream, food and beverages. Knitters spend several hours creating their work. ”

The shop also earns income from tuition fees of 5,000 baht for 20 hours of lessons. The shop owner pays tens of thousands of baht each month to hire instructors from Japan and knitting wool imported from Europe. Each lump of knitting yarn costs between 170-680 baht.

There are more than 5,000 kinds of knitting yarn available here. The shop pays about two million baht for each order and its sales are almost one million baht per month. Various patterns of knitting wool give unique designs of knitting work, which appeal to knitters to create new fashionable works.

Mathina Watcharatorn, a student of Thammasat University is a Big Knit customer. She joined her friends, who advised her to practice knitting as she was hyperactive.

Mathina Watcharatorn Big Knit Customer said “I was nervous and fidgety. After one year passed, I finished four pieces of knitting work. I became more calm and conscious. ”

Tomomi Sato, a Japanese knitting tutor, said knitting was very popular in Japan and knitting institutions had been set up to serve knitting lovers. However, the success of a knitting café in a tropical country like Thailand is surprising. Tomomi said delegates from Japan would make a study trip to Thailand.

Although knitting is a hobby that requires some money, the knitting business is still growing and has not been affected by the slumped economy. The knitting café also has plans to expand in the future.

Source: TNA (Thai News Agency)