Lotus Silk Is One Of The Most Expensive Fabrics In The World

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Lotus silk is one of the rarest and most coveted fabrics in the entire world. Its popularity comes from it being amazingly soft, wrinkle-resistant, stain-resistant, durable and eco-friendly. But its incredible price-- about ten times the cost of normal silk-- is mostly due to how scarce it is. It’s typically made in only three places around the world-- Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Harvesting and extracting the silk threads is also a long and delicate process. It comes from the stems of lotus flowers and can only be harvested during certain months of the year. It can take two months of harvesting and processing to make just one single scarf, and even a small scarf can cost more than $200.

There aren’t many people trained in the delicate process of extracting the threads from the stems and there are a lot of conditions that must be met to keep the fabric from getting ruined. Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan is one of the innovators training people in how to work with the threads so that the market for lotus silk can grow and enrich her community. Thankfully lotus silk does have a lot of benefits for its price tag, including calming properties and a belief that it can improve heart, lung, and throat health. Here are all the details on how lotus silk is made, why one lotus silk jacket sold for $5,600, and the differences between normal silk and lotus silk that make it worth the investment.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:34 What is lotus silk and what is it used for?
02:16 How it’s made
05:15 Is it worth it?