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# Myanmar Lotus Silk Scarf

Woven from 220,000 hand-rolled lotus stems

~$450 USD · scarf

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Before you buy

at Inle Lake looms; ~$300–600 by size

Check fiber composition, provenance, size and current pricing with the weaver. Stem counts and production times vary and are not verified here.

Weaver cooperatives around Nyaungshwe / Inle Lake; a few ethical importers online.

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The story

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.

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.

Source & photo notes

Source review date not recorded.

Lotus flower; not a photograph of the scarf or its producer.

[Photo: Kevin Wang](https://unsplash.com/photos/BjfSczwcxUM)
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