100% Authentic Thai Silk
We source all our silk from Thailand. Thai silk is soft but has a relatively coarse texture with slightly knotty threads, which make it particularly suitable for hand weaving
Traditional Thai silk is handwoven; each silk fabric is unique and is unable to be duplicated through commercial means. Thai silk has a unique lustre, with a sheen that has two unique blends: one colour for the warp and another for the weft.
Women traditionally weave silk on handlooms and pass the skill on to their daughters. Weaving is a sign of maturity and eligibility for marriage. A single thread is too thin to use on its own so women combine many threads to produce a thicker, usable fibre. They do this by hand-reeling the threads onto a wooden spindle to produce a uniform strand of raw silk. The process takes around 40 hours to produce a half kilogram of Thai silk.
Mudmee Silk Design
Mudmee silk is made by tying and dyeing the silk yarn into a design repeatedly so that the weaver ends up with silk yarn that looks like a multicolored bar code. The weft or horizontal yarn which has been tied and dyed creates the pattern. The pattern is the same on both sides of the silk.