Plant Dyed Makira Moon Wild Silk Wall Hanging in Rose Gold

The full moon rising over Makira Natural Park, rendered in wild silk and dyed a warm rose gold. The park sits just outside the wild silk communities that make this piece, and it brings a genuinely spectacular local sight indoors.

The silk is Ceranchia, a wild moth species found only in Madagascar. The cocoons are sustainably harvested, ironed flat and sewn together, then dyed with plants from the artisans' own dye garden — this one with Hazovola, whose name means money tree, which gives the rose gold. The gold moon is the natural undyed colour of the silk itself.

Comes with a bamboo pole, so it is ready to hang out of the box.

Materials

Ceranchia wild silk cocoons, plant-dyed with Hazovola. Bamboo hanging pole included.

Sizing

18 in by 18 in.

Care

Steam iron on a low setting if you want to.

Made in

Handmade from start to finish in northeastern Madagascar.

Please note

Plant dyes and hand-harvested cocoons both vary, so size and colour differ a little from the photographs. Tanana Madagascar is the social enterprise of Conservation through Poverty Alleviation International, and returns 100% of its profits to its artisans and farmers through that organisation.