A silky fabric used in traditional Indian wedding dresses can be woven into a silk patch-work fabric and then used to make a silk blanket.
In the photo above, the silk fabric, called Zari silk, is sewn onto a woven silk blanket, which is then hung from a wire, which creates the illusion that the fabric is silk-covered.
It can also be made from wool and cotton, as well as linen and wool.
Silk patches are also used to cover a bride’s body.
“The wool and the cotton are sewn in the same thread, the fabric and the blanket are sewed in different threads,” says Kala Patel, founder and CEO of Zari.
“It’s really a natural way of making the blanket, but I think it’s the first time that you can do it without any fancy fabric.
For more details, see our tutorial on how to make silk patches in this story.
You can see the silk blanket in this video and the silk wool fabric in this one.
Image credits: Zari, a sustainable textile company, via BBC News article A couple of years ago, I met Kala and her husband, Ravi, when they were working at a garment factory in Kerala.
They wanted to start their own company, so they went to Mumbai to work for a fabric company called Zabi.
Kala, Rava and Kunal, the couple behind Zari (who were also the founders of a silk textile company called Silk &Wool), started out making clothes that were more sustainable.
Ravi and Kala are passionate about using the fabrics that they made and using them in the way that they have.
“We have the technology to do it, but we’re just not doing it yet. “
The way we make these fabrics is quite different from what we would have done in the past,” Ravi says.
“We have the technology to do it, but we’re just not doing it yet.
I think that we have to get over the fear of using the materials that we do.
As we started our company, we thought that we would make garments that are a little bit more sustainable.”
Image credit: Zabi (Kala Patel) Image source: www.silk.me
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