ABOUT

This Reversible Eri Peace Silk Obi - Belt is truly verstaile and can be paired with any of our Kaftans and Capes with ease. This free size, adjustable belt wraps around your waist and can be knotted in the front or side. Use the solid side to uplift any outfit instantly. The fine hand block printed striped pattern on the reversible side adds detail and a playful touch to a solid drape effortlessly. Pair them with our short open kimonos here.

DETAILS

MEASUREMENTS:

L - 88 inches
W - 3.5 inches with round tapering ends

WEIGHT: 60 grams

COLOUR: Solid Red on one side with Red & White Striped on the other

Variation in printing & colour are hallmarks of hand block printing and dyeing in small batches. Here’s to celebrating blemishes, flaws, faulty and irregular.

DYES: Azo-free non toxic dyes

SHIPPING: Dispatched in 21-30 business days

At aeshaane, we invite everyone to slow down and cherish garments that are made slowly and deliberately by artisans. After all, 'Things of beauty have no fear of time'! Free Worldwide shipping on all orders.

RETURNS & EXCHANGES:

Made to order fashion: Each piece is specially handcrafted for you, thereby reducing waste, since items are not produced in advance. Please check the Return & Exchanges policy.

ARTISANS

Our Eri silk cloth is a completely handmade artisan product, crafted by Kaushik, a third generation of rearers, who hails from the tribal 'Borah' community, nurturing his small dreams in a remote village called 'Phalpur' in Assam. Twenty women from a self-help group gather around post noon, to do the 'Chunai', or sorting of these empty cocoons. The methods used by the locals are environment friendly and sustainable. The indigenous women in the Assamese household are willing to invest their time in making these ageless beauties, as a way to embrace their culture, to follow the pace of life and to pass on the craft to the younger generation. Each piece has taken at least a week to produce, excluding the harvesting and printing by our artists Ali bhai, Deepak and Bachchu.

Besides earning a fair income from their work, all our artisans have a sense of belonging, a place they can call their own, that gives them a life filled with love, pride and dignity, where they can benefit from being together as a community. Meet the makers here.

At aeshaane, our artisans have

A safe and flexible working environment
Encouragement to use their own creativity
Ability to work remotely or from home
Integration into an uplifting community
Dignified work where their voices are heard
Options to participate in workshops and other training programs

WORKSHOP: Each piece is handmade at aeshaane's in-house workshop in a small village in Bengal, where our artisans share our values and produce in a fair way. We celebrate all that is slow, ethical and does not harm the people, animals or the planet. To learn more, click on Behind the scenes.

MATERIAL

MATERIAL: 100% Natural Eri Peace silk

HANDFEEL: Lightweight, airy, incredibly smooth, fluid and soft, drape like a dream!

IS IT NON-VIOLENT? Often, the word ahimsa (peace) is synonymously used with eri silk. The name 'eri' is derived from the word 'era', which means 'castor', since the Eri silkworms (philosomia ricini) feed on castor leaves. Part of the process to rear silk conventionally, involves the cocoons being put into very hot water to preserve the integrity of the long silk filament fibres. This method clearly kills the silkworm, breaking the chain of ethical processing. However, in slow silk farming, the fibre only gets extracted from empty cocoons after the metamorphosis of the moth is complete, thereby completing the chain of circular farming. That is why eri silk is also known as peace or vegan silk. However, with this method of production, the strands you get will no longer be continuous. Since the staples are shorter due to the broken cocoons, eri is always a spun silk. Aeshaane is proud to have set it’s keen eyes on the irregular, beige cocoons with an exit hole more than a decade ago. For more information click on Our silks.

PROPERTIES: Eri silk is strong, dense and highly durable wild silk. The silk from this Natural fibre is readily biodegradable after serving its full lifecycle and thus has low environmental impact. Besides being 100% hypo-allergic and antibacterial, due to its thermal properties, Eri silk is cool in summer and warm in winter. The art of raising silkworms is by nature, highly sustainable, leaving a near zero energy carbon footprint, satisfying a majority of the global sustainable fabric production guidelines.

ORIGIN: North east India, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Karnataka and some parts of China and Japan

CARE

We help you take good care of your purchase. With a little love and care, your silk kaftan will last you for years. We celebrate re-use, swapping and encourage you to repair whenever possible.

Dry cleaning is the safest option
Gentle steam iron on the reverse side
Do not wrap in plastic, as silk needs to breathe
Each purchase comes in a recycled bag for storage

Click on Care and repair to know more.

Reversible Solid Red with Red & White Striped Obi-Belt