Every year her family extracts yarn from May, when the lotus season begins and the flowers’ stems are still tender ... Skilled workers can work on 200 stems a day. To train someone to draw lotus silk ...

Narrator: Each thread of lotus silk starts with the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus is Vietnam's national flower and a plant that's grown across the country. While this fabric has been made ...

The stems are rich in fiber and can be used as raw materials in the textile industry. Each and every part of the lotus flower is useful for people. In a poem, Liu Bowen (1311-1375) of the Ming ...

Lotus take root at the bottom of ponds and rivers and their leaves float on the surface of the water. The flower stem can grow as tall as 15 feet, and scientists discovered that a single lotus ...

"I realised that only the lotus flower was being used ... "We pluck and collect the stems and store them in stocks. Then, we slowly extract fibre from the stem using a knife along with the ...