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Bio

TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles grew out of 2 women’s love of beautiful, handcrafted textiles, as well as an understanding of the importance that this work has had in women's lives throughout cultures and time.

We buy handwoven textiles directly from the women's weaving groups in Thailand and Laos that create them. We specialize in handcrafted cottons and silks, sourcing organic fibres whenever possible. Heritage varieties of silkworms are raised without chemicals in artisans’ homes rather than in factories. The cocoons spun there are painstakingly hand-reeled into yarn, yielding extraordinary beauty and value. This is true handwork.

Before weaving, silk yarns are hand-dyed in small batches with organic materials that are locally raised organically or sustainably gathered. Emerging from these village dye pots are colours that range from subtle to intense, in all the rich hues that nature can create.

As social entrepreneurs, we want to encourage fair trade and ethical consumption, which requires knowing what goods are made of, where they are made and how their making impacts the people who make them, their communities and the environment. We travel extensively in rural Thailand and Laos, visiting weaving villages and artisan groups, to learn firsthand about the textiles we buy and how they are made.

We think you'll love these handwoven silks as much as we do!

(The photo in our profile is of one of the Thai artisans, a member of Panmai Group, that worked with us to produce these silk squares for you. She is hanging silk yarns to dry after dyeing them with natural materials collected or grown near her village in Northeastern Thailand.)

Favorite Materials

handwoven, naturally dyed silks from Thailand and Laos, made by village weaving groups from whom we buy directly