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Handwoven Peace Ahimsa Silk Natural Dyed Stole

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32X 68 inches Red Ochre Yellow Mung Green

Made consciously by adopting and embracing the pace of nature, handwoven Peace Matka silk scarves are a good example of land to loom initiative where harvesting of the cocoons, hand spinning, dyeing in natural colors and hand-weaving is all done locally in West Bengal, India.

🌼Hand spun silk yarns are dyed using a range of colors derived from natural sources like pomegranate skin, marigold, turmeric, onion skin, catechu, myrobalan, madder root, alizarin and indigo. Alum is used as a mordant to accomplish color fastness. Handwoven on traditional pit loom.

Please note Mung green has yellow tones and is difficult to distinguish from ochre yellow on digital screen.

Story

Matka Silk is one kind of Peace Silk. Peace silk or non-violent silk harvesting allows the completion of the metamorphosis of the silkworm to the butterfly, while in the regular/conventional process the cocoons are steamed, boiled, or dried in the sun, killing the larvae inside to get a single and long, smooth and fine continuous filament.
Here, the peace silk moths reach full maturity and naturally break out of their cocoons. So, in the process of harvesting the cocoons sustain damage during the escape of silkworm moth resulting a coarse and uneven, irregular silk filament.
The amount of usable silk derived from each cocoon is reduced. As the moths are allowed to age to full maturity, the production of peace silk also takes slightly longer than regular silk production.