Ahimsa Eri Silk is a wild silk with a wooly fibrous filament hand spun into yarn, handwoven on traditional throw shuttle looms of Assam.
Ahimsa Eri silk is ethically produced with reverence to life and fair benefit to rearers, spinners, weavers, dyers and facilitators. It is made by hand, made at home and has gone through no machine or mechanised processing units. Thereby, it qualifies as a slow-movement product where the maker is a farmer, a house-holder and then an artisan. Our project’s primary motivation has been “maker at ease” where the maker works from home in their available time. Added to this no pressure and creative work environment, are a few genuine laughters, concern for each other’s well being and a lot of patience to not give in to the expectation of the fast economy cycles of mainstream textiles.