Hand-reeled Rajshahi silk from vetted cooperatives — documented to source, delivered to international momme-weight specifications. The right cooperative makes the difference between a usable shipment and an expensive one.
Rajshahi produces some of the finest mulberry silk in the world — but the production is fragmented across dozens of cooperatives of wildly varying quality, capacity and reliability. The typical foreign buyer either pays inflated middleman markups for unknown provenance, or contracts directly with a cooperative that delivers a beautiful 50-metre sample and then cannot fulfil a 5,000-metre commercial order. Both failure modes cost real money.
We've mapped the Rajshahi silk cooperatives in detail — which ones can scale, which ones reel to consistent quality, which ones meet the momme-weight specifications international buyers actually require. We buy direct, we inspect direct, and we ship direct. For our buyers, that means specifications that hold, documentation that traces back to the cooperative (and where applicable the individual weaver), and the same quality at month twelve as at month one.
The product itself has two thousand years of cultivation behind it. The Mughal courts prized Reshom; traders along the Silk Road carried it west; by the seventeenth century, Rajshahi had built a reputation that European merchants travelled months to source. What distinguishes Reshom from mass-produced silks today is the same thing that distinguished it three centuries ago — it is still hand-reeled by hand, from cocoons softened in warm water, drawn one filament at a time. The yarn is then woven on traditional pit looms.
Our portfolio includes undyed silk in its natural cream-to-ivory range, naturally dyed silk using indigo and madder, and custom-dyed orders for fashion houses, drapery commissions, and ceremonial garment makers across Europe and North America. Each shipment is documented and inspected by NS Dhaka before release.
Silkworms are reared on mulberry leaves from groves around Rajshahi — fed, monitored, and tended for roughly thirty days until cocoon formation.
Cocoons are gently softened in warm water and the single silk filament drawn out by hand. Several filaments are twisted together to form a workable yarn.
Yarn is woven on traditional pit looms — by hand, by weavers from families who have done the work for generations. Patterns can be plain, jamdani-style, or custom.
Washed, sun-dried, naturally or commercially dyed as required, then inspected and documented against the originating workshop before shipment.
Tell us your requirements — momme weight, weave, dye, application — and we will come back with costs, lead time, samples and provenance, usually within two working days.
