Around 30 kilograms of cocoons are processed every day by each silk worker in Vietnam's Co Chat village. Photo by AFP/ Manan Vatsyayana. Cocoons bob in boiling water as silk is rapidly teased out, ...

I did a research project on techniques of weaving silk from self-woven silkworms which was included in the 2016 Vietnam Golden Book of Creativity.” Since 2016, the Institute for Ecological Economics ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam. This ...

Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a lotus paddy to gather the stems needed to make a rare and highly sought-after thread. Her great-aunt made and sold ...

Cocoons bob in boiling water as silk is rapidly teased out, spinning on reels skilfully operated by women in Vietnam's Co Chat village, where households have been making thread for more than a ...

Keeping the thread alive at a Vietnam silk village. Sep 28, 2019 5:02 PM PHT. Agence France ... Doing it manually makes it easier to salvage usable silk thread from cocoons even if they are not ...

NAM DINH, Vietnam: Cocoons bob in boiling water as silk is rapidly teased out, spinning on reels skilfully operated by women in Vietnam's Co Chat village, where households have been making thread ...