{"revision":"d54d68e3e30b04c6","item":{"id":"lotus-silk-scarf","name":"Myanmar Lotus Silk Scarf","tagline":"Woven from 220,000 hand-rolled lotus stems","category":"textile","price":{"amount":450,"display":"~$450","note":"at Inle Lake looms; ~$300–600 by size","currency":"USD","unit":"scarf","scope":"unit_estimate","verified":false},"rarity":96,"img":"img/lotus-photo.jpg","imageCredit":"Kevin Wang","imageSource":"https://unsplash.com/photos/BjfSczwcxUM","imageNote":"Lotus flower; not a photograph of the scarf or its producer.","palette":["#e8dcc8","#8a7a5c","#2a2419"],"why":"Lotus silk is pulled — by hand, stem by stem — from the fibrous threads inside lotus stalks on Myanmar's Inle Lake. A single scarf takes around 220,000 stems and two months of work. It was invented by a 19th-century weaver making robes for monks, and almost no one outside Myanmar has heard of it.","story":"The fiber is naturally waterproof, feather-light, and smells faintly of the lake. Buddhist monks wore the first robes; wearing one now means carrying the rarest hand-loom tradition on earth against your skin.","gift":"For the textile lover who thinks they've seen everything. Each scarf's slubs and irregularities are the signature of the hands that rolled every thread.","where":"Weaver cooperatives around Nyaungshwe / Inle Lake; a few ethical importers online.","hiddenReason":"Sold at wooden looms with no English e-commerce, no SEO, no ads. The entire supply chain is offline — a search engine that only reads the web will never find it.","tags":["lotus","silk","myanmar","inle lake","scarf","weaving","textile","handmade","gift"],"availability":"unknown","caveat":"Check fiber composition, provenance, size and current pricing with the weaver. Stem counts and production times vary and are not verified here.","evidenceStatus":"unverified_editorial","verifiedAt":null,"kind":"Scarves & shawls","url":"/rarities/lotus-silk-scarf"}}