“The scarves we weave every day come in two types: plain and patterned. In addition to silk scarves, I also produce scarves made of yarn and cloth, as well as Pha Hum (silk blankets). We also make ...

Extracting enough lotus silk for one scarf can take two months ... produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam. This natural fiber is only extracted by ...

Emily Taguchi: How did you become involved in Cambodian silk making? Kikuo Morimoto: It started in 1980. When Cambodians began fleeing to refugee camps on the Thai border, I began volunteering at ...