This scarf is hand woven from Mulberry noil silk in a leprosy community in north India. .

Standard sizes:
Width-50cm x Length-200cm
&
Width-28cm x Length-180cm other sizes available on request

Price: Silk_Scarves_Price_List_Corrected

Care: Gentle hand-wash
Made in Little Flower.
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b]Little Flower Workshop

Little Flower Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre is in Raxaul, Bihar, N. India. Men and women hand spin silk yarn, and then weave it into scarves and throws. They also weave cotton fabric for scarves and napkins and towels.
The center provides vital employment for people who would otherwise find it very difficult to find work because of their association with leprosy.
For more details about Little Flower click here



Impact
Many of the artisans in Little Flower are family members of people affected by leprosy. Sita Devi is one example.
She joined the department and was asked to learn spinning of silk from the silk cocoons.
“My father-in-law was furious with me for going to work and locked me out of the house for two days, Brother Christodas found out and convinced my father-in-law to let me work and live at home, but there was too much tension in the house because I had gone against his wishes and eventually the colony elders allocated a separate house for my husband and me and our children.”
“I worked for a while on the colony farm but I could not keep the children with me in the rain and so I returned to the weaving unit. I had to work hard to keep up the number of pieces per day as we were paid piece rate.”

Now Sita is one of the supervisors in the unit responsible for monitoring production. Read more about Sita here.