Description: Khata (Presentation scarf) made of 100% Mulberry silk (Bombyx mori).  The Khata is used in Tibet as an auspicious symbol, and indicates good intentions of the person offering it.  Received in May 2009 by Richard S. Peigler.

Production Location: Tibet

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Description: Fabric of douppioni Mulberry (Bombyx mori) made in Cambodia.  Douppioni is characterized by slubs and rough texture.  This is also a form of "shot silk" meaning the warp and weft threads are different colors.  The brass weft is hand-reeled, and the purple warp is a very fine and uniform thrown single-ply yarn.  Bought by Richard S. Peigler in March 2009 from a seller in California who marketed it as "Cambodian tussah" but it does not contain any wild silk.  It is 100% mulberry silk.

Production Location: Cambodia

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Description:Scarf of reeled mulberry silk (Bombyx mori) from India.   Hand printed colors. Hand rolled hems. Purchased in January 2009 by Richard S. Peigler.

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Description: Scarf of Kalahari wild silk (Gonomoeta postica, Lasiocampidae).  Cocoons from Aranos Namibia; yarn handspun in a township of Johannesburg; scarf hand-woven in Whiteriver, near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.  The warp threads are mulberry silk (Bombyx mori) and the weft yarns are natural colored silk of Gonometa postica.  Purchased by mail order in January 2009 by Richard S. Peigler from Tsakani Silk, Nelspruit.

Production Location: Aranos, Namibia

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