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Eri & Muga Silks These rarer silks were hot sellers at the SOAR (Spin Off Autumn Retreat) last week in Manchester NH! Available in their natural colors, both can be dyed; the Muga silk resulting in colors with earth-toned undertones because of the caramel starting color. To learn more about the muga and eri silks, check out the silk video here. Basically, they are silks spun from wild type silk moths in Northern India. The Eri silk is spun from the Philosamina ricini silk worm. This feels as fine as bombyx silk, but is not quite as slippery. It is lovely and soft. The Muga is coarser than the Eri or Bombyx, but feels softer than Tussah silk (another wild type). The Antherea Assama silkworm which spins this silk eats leaves like som and soalu (which have tannins in them) so this one has the lovely honey color. These forms are literally "picked" wild from the shrubs and trees in the area....they are not cultivated by the millions as the bombyx mori silkworms are, so they can be more expensive. Like other silks, this dyes beautifully, but I'm only offering these in their natural color at this point (just not enough hours in a day!).
Eri on the left & Muga pictured right
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