Scarves and shawls

Small Habotai Silk Scarves

These small handwoven silk shawls are similar to the large ones in Habotai silk below.

They are lightweight, but of good quality. We sell them both as scarves and for people who want a good warm scarf at hand, athletes, sailors, anglers.

Perhaps also because of the price, these are some of our most popular scarves.

47 × 160 cm

22 colors

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Large Habotai Silk Shawls

One of our most popular types of shawls. Our Habotai silk shawls are woven from smooth unfiltered silk threads. They are loosely woven, almost transparent, but warm and almost impossible to wear out. We usually deliver them washed making them softer and get the colors to shimmer.

Made from the same Habotai silk fabric we sell by the yard.

80 × 160 cm

22 colors

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Raw Silk Shawls

These shawls are also very popular. Are actually of the same kind of silk as the thin silk shawls above.

The difference is that raw silk is from outside of silk cocoon where the silk is a little uneven, and must therefore be spun like wool and cotton. The reason why it is more expensive than ordinary silk is simply because there is more silk, the shawls are heavier and warmer.

You can also order raw silk fabric by the yard in the same colors. They are slightly heavier and wider than these woven shawls.

80 × 170 cm

25 colors

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Raw Wild Silk Shawls

The yellow silk is a wild silk found only in Cambodia. A slightly different silkmoth. The white silk is a normal plateau silk grown in cooler climates. The Cambodian yellow silk thread is shorter and stronger. The woven textile becomes very soft when used.

It is very hard to find these type of shawls. The silk fabric is difficult to manufacture, the silk is homegrown and handspun and bought up by Japanese and Thais.

We provide undyed shawls in the silk's own slightly yellowish color. Or you may choose plant dyed shawls. These shawls are amazing, warmer than wool. Our shawls in yellow silk are suitable for both women and men.

80 × 170 cm

1 undyed +
1 plant dyed

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Batik Silk Scarves

Our popular batik scarves are handwoven in Cambodia. Weavers dye the batik themselves. The colors are preserved after washing.

Wash them in cold water and shampoo if you want to keep the buds, or put rubber bands on the buds before washing and take them first off when they are dried. If you want them completely smooth just iron them.

We don't have so many in stock, but more will come.

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Large Checkered Wild Silk Shawls (Krama)

We provide the yellow silk in large shawls, also plant dyed. These shawls are approx. 70 cm wide and 170 cm long.

This large shawl is a traditional Cambodian scarf, called a krama that can be used in 15 different ways. We sell them to both men and women. They're great for a suit, the best thing a fisherman or a postman can have around their neck on a cold winter day.

70 × 170 cm

many colors

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Small Checkered Wild Silk Shawls (Krama)

Same as the above large checkered wild silk shawls, but approximately half as wide and slightly shorter.

35 × 150 cm

many colors

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Large Silk Shawls from Laos

Our silk scarves from Laos are also unique. They are all different, very colorful, and all in handwoven silk from different regions in Laos.

70 × 170 cm

many patterns + color variants

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Small Silk Scarves from Laos

Same as the above, but approximately half the width and slightly shorter.

35 × 170 cm

many patterns + color variants

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Silk Organza Shawls

Our silk organza is woven in a remote area of Cambodia where it is very difficult to travel to. In dry season you travel along a very bad potholed road, in rainy season you must travel several hours by ferry and small boats. But it is a wonderful place, and one notices the residents' wealth in the area due to the income they get through silk weaving.

Organza's draping stiffness is natural in the sense that the starch comes from natural silkworm glue. The worm secretes not only consistent but also glue, to make the hard cocoon. This rigidity is maintained by not washing the silk in warm water. The glue melts at 80°C.

It is a very beautiful, transparent, shimmering and strong silk organza.

90 × 200 cm
(large unstriped, 17 colors)

44 × 196 cm
(small striped,
5 colors)

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Natural Dyed Wild Silk Scarves

Many of our shawls are natural dyed (usually plant dyed). Weavers in Cambodia always color their own thread. In the fifties almost all Cambodian silk was natural dyed. Today, most silk as in the rest of the world is chemically dyed.

But natural dyeing is coming back. Although natural dyeing takes longer time and costs more, we prefer natural dyeing. But we also support the weavers use non-polluting German colors, they are more expensive but beautiful, and do not pollute the rivers.

Our natural dyed silk shawls are woven by a girl in the southern Takeo province of Cambodia. See photo. She is only in her twenties but is already a very skilled weaver. She is trained in the village where she lives and has studied weaving at the Japanese silk expert Morimoto, who has his workshop / school near Angkor Wat. Here she learned to work with natural dyes and has probably been influenced by the minimalist  simplicity of Japanese design.

We have bought many of her scarves as we think they are very beautiful. She is a very friendly and modest person. If someone wants to send her a greeting to thank her for one of her shawls, ask her about something, you can write to us. We will make sure it gets translated and passed to her. And, of course, forward her reply.

40 × 150 cm
~ 60 × 170 cm

many patterns + color variants

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Ikat Silk Stoles

Our large ikat shawl / shawls are woven in Cambodia. We have bought them up through many years

In Thailand these are no longer wwoven, they will eventually also disappear in Cambodia or become so expensive that we can not buy them anymore. They are a piece of high quality artwork which you can keep for life.

We specify minimum size and weight, as they are handwoven can be a little larger than we write and it does nothing.

90 × 250 cm

many patterns + color variants

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Lotus Shawls

In northern Burma at Inle Lake, two days' journey from Yangon, after a long cruise on a lake you get to some houses on stilts, where they weave shawls of lotus stems.

These shawls are expensive, since it is very difficult to extract the fiber of the lotus flower and many lotus flowers are used for each shawl. The reason that they work with this very labor intensive lotus fiber is that lotus is a sacred flower in Buddhism, if one wanted to show particular respect a monk, one gave and still gives him a dress woven in the lotus.

These are very beautiful shawls that feel like a blend between silk and linen. They are strong and become soft after use.

Available in natural color or plant color.

Small Ikat Silk Scarves

We have many ikat-woven scarves.

Ikat scarves are almost always unique, weavers improvise, and it is difficult to weave two alike.

Therefore, we can usually only sell one of each. They are cheap when you consider how long it takes to weave them and how difficult it is to learn the craft.

approx.
50 × 160 cm

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Luxury Silk Shawls and Scarves

These are handwoven shawls and scarves of an especially fine quality. Limited stock.

The pictures speak for themselves and we guarantee the quality. They are strong, woven in 100% silk. If you think they look beautiful on this home page, wait until you see them in reality.

The not-printed, in-woven colors give a beautiful depth.

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Art Scarves in Silk

50 × 180 cm

miscellaneous patterns

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Miscellaneous Silk Shawls and Scarves

On our trips, we always find new exciting shawls which we buy up. Because they are handwoven, we can usually just buy them in limited numbers. When we come again they weave a new design.

So we must buy when we see something beautiful. Most shawls you see here we'll probably never get again. They are all 100% silk woven in Cambodia and Burma. All are woven in a strong silk taffeta quality.

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Cotton Shawls

From Cambodia we also buy woven cotton shawls. They are handwoven and in a lovely soft quality.

They are woven in slightly varying checkered patterns and sold unsorted. But they are all beautiful.

75 × 150 cm

1 type

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Luxury Unique Silk Scarves from Laos

Once a year we travel to Laos and buy their very special silk pieces. They vary a lot in design as they are woven by small minorities and tribes around the country. They are almost all unique and some designs we only come across once.

All are handwoven and 100% silk.

40 × 160 cm
~ 80 × 250 cm

several patterns
+ colors
 

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Figurative Ikat (Pidan) Silk Shawls

These, very complicated to weave, ikat weavings are called a Pidan. For many centuries they have been woven for pagodas. Wealthy people donated them.

Today there are very few who can weave them. For years we have bought up those we could get. In a few years they may completely disappear because they are too time consuming to weave and very few older women know how to do it.

Japanese and other people in Asia hang them on the wall as art. But they are also beautiful as a table cloths or shawls. And your neighbor will for sure not have one alike corresponding. If you treat it well, it will rise in value.

90 × 150 cm
~ 100 × 360 cm

many patterns
+ colors

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Khmer Silk Stoles

85 × 300 cm

many patterns
+ color variants
 

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