Plant Dyed Makira Moon Wild Silk Wall Hanging in Sage Grey

The full moon rising over Makira Natural Park, rendered in wild silk. The park sits just outside the artisan community that makes this, and the piece brings a genuinely spectacular local sight indoors at a scale that works over a bed or a desk.

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 grown in the artisans' own dye garden — this one with Foleramena, a local plant that gives the soft sage grey. The gold moon is the natural undyed colour of the silk itself, not a dye at all.

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

Materials

Ceranchia wild silk cocoons, plant-dyed with Foleramena. 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.