Most of us think of the lotus ... raw silk. It was slubbed and soft to the touch. With the nonchalance of a man who has his own clothing company, Mr. Loro Piana had the fabric made into a jacket.

After the house’s founder, Pier Luigi Loro Piana, was gifted lotus silk which he made into a sport coat for himself, he fell so in love with the fabric that he replicated it using Lotus Silk and ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam.

Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world ... It's not the outer hair you can see that's used for making garments, but the supersoft coat just underneath it. It's softer, lighter ...

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Phan Thi Thuan extracts yarn from lotus stalks and turns the fiber into silk that is more expensive than regular varieties. My Duc District’s Phung Xa Commune, about 40 km from Hanoi, has a tradition ...