Antheraea proylei Jolly

 

Description:Women's wrapper with temperate tasar silk (Antheraea proylei, a cross between A. pernyi and A. roylei).  Hand-woven in 2010 in Uttarakhand.  The handspun weft is temperate tasar, and the warps are temperate tasar and eri (samia ricini) silks, both handspun.  Colors are from natural vegetable dyes.  Received directly from India in October 2010 by Richard S. Peigler.

Production Location: Uttarakhand, India

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