I'm impressed with the lady than the silk to be honest. She manage, train, teach, plan for the future, about to start a whole new industry section in garment production, and still have time to get her hands dirty working hard. Hats off to her.
I do hope one day she will make it, i visited vietnam last year and the lotus silk garments and insanely soft, my mom even ask them for a custom made buddhist monk robes, since it's quite symbolic to present them to a buddhist monk, after all lotus flower are the symbol of the buddhist religion.
If the demands for this takes off though, people will start harming nature for profit. The only reason this industry isn't doing so at the moment is because so few know about it. I mean, think about it: 9200 lotus stems for _one_ scarf. It sells for $200 but the video says that price is high enough to be worth it, so this must be a lot of money in Vietnam. If the demand grows, people will naturally be wanting to enter the industry to fill it. Vietnam naturally has a lot of lotus ponds, but it's not like the whole country is covered. And it's not a big country either. How long until they start clear-cutting or transforming other terrain types into floodlands in order to grow lotus?
We are Vietnamese, we only can make the cheap products because our customers are poor, but our products have standards. Edit: to compare, most people in Vietnam living well with a hundred VND a day, which is 4,40 USD. This contain not just the meals but the whole living costs. The United States is one of the wealthiest countrys on the globe, and we Vietnamese have been left behind at least 70 years because of the Vietnam war. We are different
I really love her mindset. Some highly skilled people are just like "you're new and dumb, better follow my way". Meanwhile she's like "I love to teach the young generation, they're creative, passionate, they do things fast and later in life they're gonna find ways to do it better and faster than I am." If that's not so precious I don't know what is.
well i bet they will sell in bulk to big fashion designers so they will only see 10 % of the profits. A bit unfair IMO, but yeah. They can provide themselves I guess?
yeah but the scalf is sold in Vietnam, so 200 dollars is very expensive in Vietnam i guess, idk about world economy, but if they get outside Vietnam, the scalf prices is going to be increased lol (about 300 to 900 dollars)
@@Someone25948 she would make millions only from teaching other people, why would she rely on someone to buy her stuff? your money is hard earned, some earn it easy.
@@lmklmk1512 skilled at what though? Creating a silk. The people in the office are skilled in doing things that can actually benefit us on a daily basis
It doesn't sound like the price is high enough considering how many plants it takes to make one & especially all the hard hand work that goes into one. I find it fascinating that silk can be made from the lotus stem. One of a kind designer scarves would fetch a much higher price, probably baby wouldn't be made as durable or as beautiful...it also seems like this could help a lot of people in the community learn a new skill that would help all financially too.
That was my thought, as well. But perhaps this is the price at which she is guaranteed a sale. If a retail business got hold of these, they would charge 800-1000 dollars for them. It is often that farmers have the best luxury items, it is people who live in cities that have to pay the premium prices.
As a Vietnamese not many people can afford 200 dollars here especially hand crafted silk so I say western market prices should be higher for products or silks like these
"Lotus silk can cost 3x as much as regular silk." Not that i can afford regular silk but ok. Edit: holy cow thanks for 3.3k likes, if I had a dollar for each one maybe I could afford silk.
@@justinvader8141 yeah, rich tourists can pay that then lol. These people deserve good pay and for their business to be profitable! And there will be people who pay $1000 for a scarf so 🤷🏽♀️
It's worth it. I'd rather help out by buying from these hard working people than buy the same product from expensive brands. If they made shoes with lotus silk, I'd wear them.
This woman us amazing. Skilled artisan , craftsman , teacher , entrepreneur. A true treasure of her country. This woman is an incredible asset to her country and its resources . Well done Ma'am 👏. 👏
The way things are discovered are weird. Like tenderizing meat, imagine someone just punchin the shit out of a meat not knowing they made one of the revolutionary ways in preparing meat dishes/meal.
I actually thought about this idea after eating some lotus root which has this stringy fibre, so I looked it up and turns out lotus fabric is already a thing. I thought I discovered something new but I guess the saying "there is no original thought" is kinda true.
For the idiots blasting others about the price, calling all of it a scam, it's a "luxury" item it's not deisgned to be the most affordable or the best piece of fabric in the world, it's a rare vanity item. for those who have too much money, it's not for people who are on minimum wage it's for the high society with more money than they know what to do with, these vanity items are ways of making them give back to the industries they used to gain their wealth in the first place. This woman and her students spent months to have enough of this silk to make 10-20 scarfs which only sells for $200, that's $2000-$4000 a month. around the time of the video she said she had 20 other workers who learned this craft, if you take the average 5 days a week, 9-5 working hours, 1 hour unpaid break at say $7.25 (american minimum wage) an hour that's $290 dollars a week, if all these workers earned the same amount and worked 40 hours a week that's $23,200 a month in labour costs.
Maybe we should appreciate this more than those expensive shit that they don’t even need the money to make it’s just expensive because they pay a lot of models like this was made by HAND!!! every strand was by handddd this has the quality that we need to appreciate more plus it’s their culture and seeing them work is such an amazing experience
yes its a shame in the USA we invest so much money in teach but when you look at these ppl manageing with teach that looks at least 100 years or more old it makes you think. here in PA were i live we used to have a thriving silk industry but it is largly forgotten.
Now this is a good reason to have a product be this expensive. It's a rare material, made even rarer by the fact that there's only a handful of people on earth extracting it
@@nikhilsukumar23 because they make a living off of it and if they just take their product for themselves and not sell it, where will they get the money? like you said it’s a homemade business so it’s nit funded by any big cooperation (as far as i know)
Me in my childhood while breaking the stems of Lotus flower after Puja : " Mum, can people make clothes out of these thread-like things comming from the stem of the Lotus flower ?" *Phan* *Thi* *Thuan* :*YES*.
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@@phucle8675 because it depends on where you live and whether normally you care about these traditional artisans. I’m from Hanoi and live nearby one of the most famous lotus lake in town, i have always known about it. It’s kind of a traditional thing for my family to wait for the new lotus season to buy freshly made lotus tea (in a lotus flower) and when i come back to Eu after a VN trip, i would buy silk and lotus silk scarves for my husband’s family :)
I'm Vietnamese, and this brings in so much serotonin for me. The Lotus is my favorite flower, I try to incorporate it into my artwork whenever I can. The fact this is practically vegan silk makes it such a big step towards the future of fashion.
@BUT MOTHA you can say that about anything that’s not food or water, Gucci let’s people know that you make a lot of money and people will treat you better and think of you better, and sorry to burst your bubble but that does matter wether you like it or not and don’t even say you don’t care what others think of you cause trust me you do lol
Whenever I got lotus flowers from my mom after she offered them for puja, I sometimes broke the stems and found those thin fibres. I rolled them like how they do with the silkworm cocoons. Then, I wondered if they made clothes from the lotus fibres but shrugged it off cuz it was such a foolish idea. Now that I see it's actually a real thing and ppl really do make fabrics, I feel happy and amused seeing it
New level of silk-making Several years after her first creativity, Thuan began a new adventure with silk. Her village has many lakes and ponds with abundant lotus flowers. Thuan was suggested to travel to Myanmar and Cambodia to learn how to make silk from lotus stems. "At first, I felt it was very strange because I had never heard of this product," she said. But I believed that if other people could do it, I could do."
The price is cheap originally because if it is supported by any brands they will demand it to the market in a higher price and people will buy because of only the brand and not the silk itself. That's why it is expensive because of only the brand.
I live in a Buddhist country where people sell lotus flowers and their stems are thrown away in LOTS. never knew that they could be of such use. Such creativity ♥️
@@oksure9712 it’s a show from 2008 to 2011 and the dad when they broke sum or didn’t finish the kids didn’t finish their food (the kids) the dad will say the price of what there wasting
when she started speaking vietnamese i was so shook. lowkey feeling proud rn even though i had no idea this even existed... i don’t even think my parents know what this is lol also it’s so satisfying to watch the strands get taken out
To be fair, it's not the lotus silk that is expensive. It's the labour (or rather... it's insanely cheap. If this was manufactured in a Western country, that's easily a $5000 scarf, not $200).
😂😆..🤝 with V.G..Same here..👍..Didn't know Lotus Stem's final products R that EXPENSIVE and took @ least 2 Mon. 4 the entire professional progression 2 comments..No wonder my GI 🔄 was a total mess 🆙.. Popping NeXIuM and other over the counters laxatives faster and more frequent than chewing on gummy 🐻 4 betterment of my overall health..😄😉😁..
Anybody else think this woman is underrated, she not only made a luxury item out of something that use to be considered useless but a product that can be marked as “vegan silk” and cost a lot of money
and close my eyes most people aren't stupid and have the common courtesy to watch and learn why something is expensive, or to scrub the video forward. thanks for the ableist comment though! i'm autistic, definitely don't appreciate it.
I remember when I was little, everyone loved silk worms and someone gave me two and I put them into a shoe box with holes, and other things inside, and my teachers even allowed me to put it on my desk the entire day :D Then, when they got older and turned into butterflies (im not sure if it was butterflies or something else), my mom opened the box and let it fly out.
Myanmar was the first ever country that weaved silk from lotus. Recently Vietnamese lotus industry is developing so fast and some Vietnamese want to claim Lotus silk is originated in Vietnam. Pls give credit to Myanmar.
I’m surprised the scarves don’t sell for more. 10-20 scarves a month at $200 per scarf is $2000-$4000 a month. That’s $14k-$48k per year split amongst 20 workers. Considering the amount of time and skill required to produce these silk scarves, I figured they’d be even more expensive to compensate the workers. Idk the cost if living where they’re from though, so maybe they don’t need as much as someone in New England for example.
Wow, making a plant based scarf. No brutal harvest from the grub, which probably turned into our disgust for grubs. Violence toward something so small affects how we teach each other to be grossed out? Who knows. The idea makes me think it's a good investment for the fabric. Hands really touch the fabric. For those who believe in energetic transfer, it is attractive.
Really awesome... also needs lots of patience to cultivate lotus and produce it's thread. Hats off to these hard working village people for their innovation.. 🙏🙏👍
These natural clothing materials look and feel wonderful, but the main problem with all of them is mass manufacturing methods have not been developed, the extraction process requires many steps
For those of you saying "200 dollars is so cheap!".... They said 200 dollars per 25 centimeters. That's like 10 inches. That is NOT the price per scarf unless your neck is literally 3 inches in circumference. She is simply explaining that the scarves are 200 dollars per 25cm. A full sized scarf is going to be atleast 125cm and possibly even a whole lot more. This means it's still over 1000 dollars per scarf which is much more fair.
At least its slightly higher than the minimum wage, oh wait they don't have set minimum wages either. At least they are earning than having nothing at all.
@@boysteacher3818 minimum wages have always benefited those already capable of working above minimum wage, and ruined those who's skills are so limited they can only do minimum wage work
I went to many silk museums in the past and got to see the lotus silk making process. Love how the majority of the language speaking in the video is Vietnamese, brought back so many memories and just hit real close to home
@Waifu Expert well that’s how you think some people actually want to be valued and cared for. Some people need someone because they are mentally unstable. If you have been denied by everyone and had no one care for you I understand that you would feel this way. But I’m no physiologist or whatever I really don’t care. Ps I got this from a book
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Rich people do buy these kinda stuff just cause they are rare to find or hard to make. When you have lots of money, you tends to spend more on unique stuff. 😂🙏🏻
@@royisdabest ehh i disagree. a lot of handcrafted products are more expensive than mass produced ones. Take fashion brands as an example, indie designer brands sell their clothes for a very high amount compared to fast fashion brands. also bread isn't really a good example because you only need a very very little amount of ingredients to make a single bread and breads are often mass produced. i do agree that most people here probably don't understand how big of a money $200 is to a 3rd world country. The lady is probably doing just fine.
In Vietnam, the economy is really poor and many people from richer countries would be considered rich there. Two USD would be ~50000 Vietnamese currency.
