Buray Shawl in Natural White with alternative adornments
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
with alternative adornments
as both can mimic the phonetic sounds of human languages
hand spun and hand woven in Bengal
On one full moon night
on an excursion out of the palace
Buray Shawl in Natural White with alternative adornments100% Buray silk handwoven, dyed, and finished in Norbulingka workshops. Known as bu ray (insect cloth) in Bhutan and Tibet and as Endi in India, this rugged wild silk fabric is made from the pierced cocoon of the Attacus Ricini moth whose larvae feed on the leaves of the castor oil tree, in the jungles of Assam. Popular in Bhutan and Tibet, buray was imported from Assam for centuries and traditionally used for monks shawls and the famed Tibetan shirt.