Extracting enough lotus silk for one scarf can take two months, and the final product can cost 10 times as much as regular silk. So just how is it made, and what makes it so expensive?

Fabric of success: how 'lotus silk' is weaving its way into Vietnam. ... Phan Thi Thuan poses with with a hand-made scarf she made from lotus "silk" at her workshop in Hanoi AFP / Nhac NGUYEN.

Lotus silk is durable and breathes, and can be made into bags, book covers, home decorations, wall frames, and other items, the most popular being scarves. It takes 4,800 lotus stalks for a 1.7-m ...

On a bright day in a tranquil village by the Day River about 50km from Hanoi, a silkworm workshop is full of life. Thousands of silkworms are secreting tiny clear thread of silk “working” on a flat ...

While a regular silk scarf might go for $20, even a smaller lotus version — popular with pre-coronavirus tourists — fetches more than 10 times that. Although lotus silk is made in a handful of ...

While a regular silk scarf might go for $20, even a smaller lotus version -- popular with pre-coronavirus tourists -- fetches more than 10 times that. Phan Thi Thuan spinning silk threads derived from ...

Fabric of success: how 'lotus silk' is weaving its way into Vietnam . PUBLISHED : 28 Aug 2020 at 09:45. WRITER: AFP ... While a regular silk scarf might go for $20, even a smaller lotus version ...

She began extracting the fibre found in the stems to make “lotus silk”, an exclusive fabric highly sought by fashion designers. “I was the first in Vietnam,” the 65-year-old told AFP proudly.

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 ...

Fabric of success: How 'lotus silk' is weaving its way into Vietnam - Art & Culture - The Jakarta Post. ... While a regular silk scarf might go for $20, even a smaller lotus version ...