YINI – 100% silk shawl in charcoal with jacquard weave

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£495.00

A masterpiece of Mulberry silk hand-weaving and botanical dyeing, this shawl has received Queen Sirikit’s recognition with its Gold Peacock certification. This heirloom beauty, handmade from 100% silk, has its natural warp interwoven with charcoal black weft yarn to form a spectacular jacquard pattern that redefines heirloom heritage even before it is completed and embellished with matching 6 mm Snowflake Obsidian semi-precious stones.

195 cm x 60 cm

colour

Feeling (attracted to the colour) black?

Wearing the colour black is a tribute to the darkness of night. It is the primordial void, a MYSTIC ALLURE, a colour that lacks colour, ranging from being authoritative with zero tolerance in its obscurest origins to seeking neutrality and compromise as the shades lighten.

Black is real sensation,
even if it is produced
by entire absence of light.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
(physician & physicist,
1821-1894)

Stone

Snowflake Obsidian has inclusions of spherulite which give us vision to see what no longer serves us. While it helps ground & protect us it boosts our confidence & self-esteem and balances the body, mind & soul.

— A powerful confidence & self-esteem booster

Mantra

Magnetism of Mystic Allure

The pure Magnetism of black earth stone crystals bestows upon your auric field inner balance for body, mind & soul where surrender to stillness resurrects empowerment. Be mesmerised by Mystic Allure‘s volcanic opalescence & transcend beyond illusion into a world of your own illuminated creation.

Faith is an invisible & invincible magnet;
it attracts to itself whatever it fervently
desires & calmly & persistently expects.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
(essayist, lecturer, & poet,
1803-1882)

details

100% silk with botanical dyes; WARP: Mulberry silk; WEFT: Mulberry silk

Botanical-dyed with Stick Lac (Coccus lacca, Thai: khrang); use insect resin for RED. Myrobalan Wood (Terminalia Cherbula Retz, Thai: samo); use flower for GREEN. King Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria, Thai: bai kraam); use crop for BLUE. Burmese Padauk (Pterocarpus macrocarpus, Thai: pradoo); use bark & red lime for TAN. Ebony Tree (Diospyros mollis Griff., Thai: luk maklua); use fruit for BLACK. Eucalyptus (euc. carnaldulensis); use bark & mud for GREY.

Dimensions — ca. 195 cm length x 60 cm wide, excluding a 12 cm twisted fringe
Weight — ca. 290 g

Meticulous weaving works emerge from the heart of this evolved community of village artisans in a northern province. Each piece – from beginning to end – takes weeks to complete.

— Queen Sirikit’s love for silk weaving is honoured with these northern treasures every time a new piece emerges from a special handloom …

HAND-MADE WITH LOVE BY VILLAGE ARTISANS IN THAILAND; HAND WASH SEPARATELY WITH SOFT SOAP IN COLD WATER; COLOUR MAY BLEED; DRY ON FLAT SURFACE IN SHADE ONLY; NO TUMBLE DRY; LOW IRON IF NEEDED