Material: Cotton or silk
Origin: Bangladesh, Mali, Laos, Nepal
Order: Per meter.
Origin: Bangladesh, Mali, Laos, Nepal
Order: Per meter.
Abaca
Basin
Bogolan
Dhaka
Guatamala wovens
Ikat
Indigo
Jamdani
Kalahari silk
Karakul wool
Nakshi Kantha
Oushtab
Supplementary Weft
Suzani/Bukhara
Tarshomar
Camel wool
Many, but not all, fabrics from Strawberries Fabrics are woven by hand. The handloom fabrics from the Houey Hong Vocationa Traning Centre have exclusively been dyed with natural colourings. The cotton or silk fabric is woven according to traditional Lao techniques such as ‘ikat’ or supplementary weft’. This last technique is very complicated as it involves adding separate threads at the weft. All fabrics are locally produced by the students of the centre. The students are also taught how to collect the ingredients for the natural dyes from trees and herbs and how to process these in order to obtain the desired colours. The centre has made a colour chart that shows which herb or fruit gives which colour, for instance jackfruit will make a soft yellow and ebony wood a brown.orange.