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This group consists of about 10 women from the Karen hill tribe who weave at home using backstrap looms.
The Karen tribe is well-known for its skillful techniques in naturally dyeing and hand weaving cotton fabrics. They use all natural materials, usually different kinds of bark and leaves, sometimes even mud, to create a variety of natural colors.
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These exquisite scarves are crafted by hand from superior quality Thai silk by these women who control every step in the process of their creation, from raising the silk worms to spinning and weaving the luxurious threads on their looms. The colors vary slightly as a result of the hand-dyeing process and one silk thread may consist of up to three different complementary colors, thereby creating a very unique effect when woven with other similar threads. Each product is truly distinctive and individual.
Although some silk is brought in from outside to meet peaks of demand, the group mainly uses silk from silkworms raised in the village. Mulberry leaves are gathered from trees and fed to the worms before they form into chrysalises. These buds are soaked and unwoven to produce the silk threads.
The silk is dyed by hand in small vats heated by a wood fire and then hung out to dry. Once it is dry, the silk is hand-spun onto a large spool. Then several threads of complementary colors are spun together into a single strand, creating an iridescent effect.
The thread is then woven on traditional looms made of wood and bamboo. The different patterns within the scarves result from the weaver's skill. Although each set of scarves adheres to a general pattern, no two scarves are exactly the same - each one is a work of art.
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