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A core member of the Storied Assam editorial team, one of the subject experts who review and vet the wiki so every page can be trusted.

A two-piece muga silk mekhela-sador laid on a black ground, its natural golden cloth worked with rows of red sunflower-like medallions and broad red-and-gold patterned borders
Place

Sualkuchi

Weaving village on the north bank of the Brahmaputra. Continuous looms for centuries; today the engine of Assam's silk industry.

A rearer holds a tray of muga silkworms against the trunk of a host tree in an open Assam farm
Craft

Muga Silk and the Looms of Sualkuchi

The golden muga silk, found almost nowhere else on earth, and the great weaving village of Sualkuchi.

An ivory-white Assamese mekhela sador draped on a stand, its white field scattered with small woven motifs in red, green and gold
Craft

Pat: the Bridal Silk

The white, glossy pat, the mulberry silk that completes Assam's three-silk triad with muga and eri, the cloth of weddings and ceremony.

Rolled bolts of eri silk fabric in cream, mustard, pink, teal, ochre and green stacked on a shelf
Craft

Eri: the Peace Silk

Assam's warm, matte eri, the non-violent 'ahimsa' silk spun without killing the moth, rooted in Bodo tradition.

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