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.

From the fragile silk thread and extraordinary craft manipulation, lotus silk has become a unique product in the fashion market. On average, a worker draws a silk thread from roughly 260 lotus stalks, ...

Phan Thi Thuan extracts yarn from lotus stalks and turns the fiber into silk that is more expensive than regular varieties. My Duc District’s Phung Xa Commune, about 40 km from Hanoi, has a tradition ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Recently, Bangladesh successfully developed lotus silk — a biodegradable luxury fabric — using lotus stems, merging ancient tradition with ...

Historically, these ideas spread along trade routes. This essay looks at the great Eurasian Silk Roads as a transmitter of people, goods, ideas, beliefs and inventions. Good ideas travel easilyand far ...

Ever the emissaries, it was through them I’d learned of Myanmar’s prized artisanal textile, lotus silk. This silk—which is amongst the most rare in the world due to the short harvesting ...

With the long-awaited return of “The White Lotus” this past weekend has come an influx of resort-inspired merch to rival that of even the biggest blockbuster movies. If you thought it couldn ...

“White Lotus” costume designer Alex Bovaird revealed that for Season 3, she turned to a Thai fashion brand founded by an American intelligence officer-turned-silk merchant named Jim ...

a leading invention licensing firm, to sell or license the patent rights to her Silk Body and Hair Towels product. Ideal licensing candidates would be U.S. based product manufacturers or ...

In an era marked by climate urgency and an escalating demand for sustainable alternatives, Bangladesh has introduced a notable innovation in the textile industry: lotus silk — a rare, biodegradable, ...