Artisans Silk Farm

This guide to Artisans Silk Farm outside Siem Reap starts with a single golden cocoon and reaches back to how the Khmer Rouge nearly ended Cambodian silk weaving for good between nineteen seventy-five and nineteen seventy-nine, hunting down anyone whose skill lived in their hands rather than in books. It follows Artisans Angkor, founded in nineteen ninety-two to prove the craft could be taught again, through the mulberry gardens and ant-proofed houses that shelter a rare, high-maintenance breed of silkworm traced back to the Angkorian era. Follow the thread yourself from the boiling vats to the dye pots on your way to the looms.