Silks from the land of Angkor

In a small Cambodian village north of Siem Reap, Japanese-born Kikuo Morimoto is reviving the traditional technique of making Khmer silks the old-fashioned way. The process starts from growing mulberry trees for silkworms, dying threads with colour-enriched tree barks or dyes made from insects to weaving fabrics on ancient wooden instruments. L'Espace Asia on rue Dante in Paris is exhibiting the Khmer silks until mid-March.

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