The ‘Monita’ Shawl in Light-Weight Ethical ‘Eri’ Silk with Woven Design from Weaving Destination Handwoven

Scarf Details:
100% Ethical ‘Eri’ silk

This shawl is ethical silk meaning the silk worm is not killed during the process of extracting the silk yarns.Instead it lives to become a butterfly and flies off from the cocoon.This silk comes from the ‘Eri’ silkworm which is native to the region of Assam, India.

Beautiful shawl/scraf in the natural ‘Eri’ silk colour. This light weight cream shawl has an all-over equidistant woven design in coloured organic cotton thread. This shawl is named after the woman who wove it (‘Monita’).

Measurement: 83 inches long by 32 inches wide

Care instructions: Dry clean recommended. However, it can be hand-washed separately and ironed.

This shawl comes from the Weaving Destination social enterprise.Proceeds from the sale of this shawl will go to the women weavers employed by Weaving Destination and to the NEDAN Foundation for their work with women and families in Northeastern India.

Weaving Destination was set up as a women’s weaving collective in the Assam, Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) of Northeastern India.The aim is to provide a source of financial independence for vulnerable indigenous Bodo women in the region, many of whom are survivors of trafficking, migrant returnees or are affected by HIV/AIDS.The social enterprise was started as an income generation project through the NEDAN Foundation (www.nedan.in) with support from the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) and builds upon the weaving tradition and availability of home-based weaving looms in the Bodo communities in the region.

Today Weaving Destination includes three weaving centers in remote villages of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), Kokrajhar, Assam; a sewing unit; and a group of females trained in yarn extraction. Besides the 65 women engaged in the three weaving centers, many more have been trained and are employed in the sewing unit and yarn extraction process. Engaging and empowering women – economically and socially – feeds back to empowering families and communities they belong to. The Weaving Destination is a social enterprise primarily for creating employment and livelihood opportunity for ethnic, indigenous local women. NEDAN Foundation – the charity organization, on the other hand, with a few international grants and revenue generated from the Weaving Destination works towards other significant issues in the area such as child protection, education, health, peace building and overall community development aspects in the villages the women come from and where the weaving centers have been established.

Shipping: Please note that we ship Eri silk products by first class trackable mail only.