Handwoven Cambodian Raw Silk Scarf buy

This is a raw silk Ikat shawl from Cambodia

166cm X 45cm

This shawl was made by a Cambodian-run social enterprise working hand-in-hand with Cambodian artisans living throughout the Kingdom of Cambodia. They partner with 100 home-based producing families through a fair business relationship that strives to equally value the rural producers and the office managers. Allowing producers to work from their own homes, ensuring that people can earn a living while caring for their families. They see their producing partners as people, not just the means to a profit. Some of our producers have been producing for the Association for ten years or more, and are happy to say that their lives have improved financially. Now, families are able to send their children to school, have enough food for the family, and able to purchase motobikes for transportation. Separate from pay and worker treatment, they put special value on Cambodian culture and tradition. Artisans are encouraged to apply the stories they learned as a child to their designs, allowing artisans to pass their own culture to other generations as well as communities from buy all across the globe.