Lotus Farm by Samatoa, Siem Reap, Cambodge
Bienvenue à la Lotus Farm de Samatoa, un concept unique au monde.
La Lotus Farm présente en détail la production du tissu le plus écologique au monde : le tissu de lotus.
Depuis la récolte jusqu'au tissage traditionnel cambodgien, vivez l'expérience des différentes étapes de transformation du lotus en un tissu de haute qualité.
La Lotus Farm a pour objectif de connecter les personnes les plus pauvres du Cambodge avec le marché du luxe, en créant des tissus exclusivement fabriqués à la main.
Découvrez également comment les pétales, les pistils et le cœur de la fleur sont transformés en une gamme de thés et infusions conservant les propriétés exceptionnelles du Lotus Sacré.
Sur la route du Phnom Krom, à 10 min du centre-ville de Siem Reap, au cœur d'un environnement authentique et préservé, venez vivre une expérience originale à la Lotus Farm !
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Awen Delaval
gm@samatoa.com
Twitter: @samatoa2003
Lotus Farm by Samatoa / Lotus Farm de Samatoa
Lotus Farm by Samatoa - Phnom Krom Road - Siem Reap, Cambodia
Samatoa - 98 Pithnu Street - Siem Reap, Cambodia
Contact - +855 63 63 69 133 - +855 63 96 53 10
Lotus Farm in siem reap angkor province | Popular attraction on the way to tonle sap lake.
Siem Reap (Khmer: ក្រុងសៀមរាប, pronounced [siəm riəp]; Thai: เสียมราฐ) is the capital city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia, and a popular resort town as the gateway to Angkor region.
Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter, and around the Old Market. In the city, there are museums, traditional Apsara dance performances, a Cambodian cultural village, souvenir and handycraft shops, silk farms, rice-paddies in the countryside, fishing villages and a bird sanctuary near the Tonle Sap Lake. More info:
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LOTUS Farm Travel VLOG | SIEM REAP CAMBODIA
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Cambodian Lotus Farm at Phnom Krom, Siem Reap
Samatoa, an eco textile company, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Samatoa is a social enterprise of textile (manufacturer of clothing in silk and other natural fibers) founded in Cambodia in 2003 on the three pillars of sustainable development : economic efficiency, social equity and protection of the environment.
Since the beginning in 2003, the Samatoa's founder values have remained the same: the customer satisfaction, the impeccable quality of the products combined with a sustainable, environmental and social respect. The heart of the Samatoa's expertise relies on its workshops in which the farmers, the spinners, the weavers, the tailors and the partners share daily the same ambitions.
One of the Samatoa's objective is to connect the luxury market to the poorest persons: by buying one luxury jacket, a consumer provides 2 months of working.
The main Lotus Farm is located in Battambang, around an amazing giant lake. Given the needs to produce lotus garments in quantity for high end clients, the company has created a second one in Siem Reap, near Phnom Krom. In this place, Samatoa now harvests 20 hectares of the Lotus Lake, employs 30 farmers, spinners and weavers.
The Lotus Farm aims to create 500 jobs in 5 years.
In order to share its expertise, come to visit our workshop and discover an exclusive discovery of a unique handmade process to create the most ecological textile: the lotus fabric.
A meaningful production
Lotus flower is the symbol of divine purity in many Asian cultures, appearing in the hands of the sacred Buddha. It was historically used to make robes for high-ranking Buddhist monks. The Lotus has played a major part in Asian folklore, and is a particularly important icon in the homes of many weavers.
The Harvest of Lotus Flowers Stems
The lotus fiber exclusively comes from the Sacred Lotus which provides the most soft, breathable and bright fiber. The farmers select the stems according to their level of maturity. They are picked by boat, 4 times per day, 1 ton per week. The lotus fields are entirely transplanted every three years to preserve the best quality. The first trade secret of the lotus fabric is to transform the fibers in thread conserving its full properties: as an aquatic plant, the lotus fibers have to be extracted and transformed in an aquatic middle.
After the harvest, the stems are brought to the factory where there are cleaned to take off the prickles and the impurities before the spinning.
The Spinning, a Crucial Step of the Process
The spinning is the stage which consists in transforming the lotus fiber in a thread.
After cleaning, spinners carefully cut around the stems and pull their extremities to extract the lotus fibers. Twelve layers of fiber must be superimposed and rolled with precaution and precision to produce a high quality thread. The second trade secret is in line with what is probably the most meticulous part of the process: to put the different pieces of thread together without visible junction and without any weakness. The thread has to be very regular. Without this attention, it will break during the weaving and decrease the quality of the fabric. One meter of lotus fabric needs 3000 meters of lotus fibers.
When the thread is finished, it is wound on to a skein winder and dried. One spinner produces 250 meters of thread per day. To produce one jacket, it needs 4 meters of fabric or 12000 meters of fiber, which means 2 months of work for a spinner. Because of its complexity, this process must be realized exclusively by hand.
And the lotus thread becomes fabric: the weaving
Before weaving, the yarn is twisted to increase its strength and then wounded around a skein few times. Then, the preparation of the loom takes 15 days. A 50 meters fabric roll is weaved in 2 months. This twisted thread is wound around reels placed on quills into a wooden shuttle which is send through the space formed by the yarns. The weaver switches the position of the pedals and repeat the same movement. One weaver produces one meter of lotus fabric per day.
A fabric with remarkable properties
Lotus fabric has unique properties: it is an amazing soft, light and breathable fabric.
It is the most ecological fabric as:
- It doesn't contains any chemical or toxic products,
- The manufacturing process doesn't requires any petrol, gas or electricity power,
- It doesn't use any added water,
- The lotus flower is an efficient phyto-sanitary plant which cleans the water and protects the ecosystem by preserving fishes and insects,
- All the process of fabrication is entirely sustainable.
Would you like to discover more about natural fibers within our Eco textile business ?
Awen Delaval
Mail : gm@samatoa.com
Facebook : facebook.com/samatoa.eco
Samatoa - Twitter : @samatoa2003
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Welcome to Lotus Farm at Phnom Krom, Siem Reap Cambodia.
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Welcome to Lotus Farm at Phnom Krom, Siem Reap Cambodia.
ចំការឈូក, Lotus Farm at Phnom Krom, Siem Reap Cambodia
ចំការឈូក, Lotus Farm at Phnom Krom, Siem Reap Cambodia
ចំការឈូក, Lotus Farm at Phnom Krom, Siem Reap Cambodia
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ចំការឈូក, Lotus Farm at Phnom Krom, Siem Reap Cambodia
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Join me on my last day in Siem Riep! We went to check out the gorgeous lotus farm and even got a chance to snack on some lotus peas. ^_^
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Cambo,6, 2016 Siem Reap. Lotus Farm n Scooter trip
Out for a half day scooter trip to check out Siem Reap. Of course the 1st stop is the Cemetery, way different to in Aus, and I think its a better way to remember your lost ones.
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Just a 25/30 minute tuk-tuk ride out of Siem Reap is this lovely lotus farm.
The Spinners of lotus stems - Lotus farm SAMATOA
Created in 2003, Samatoa is an eco-responsible and Fairtrade textile company. Since the beginning, the Samatoa's founder values have remained the same: the customer satisfaction, the impeccable quality of the products combined with a sustainable, environmental and social respect. The heart of the Samatoa's expertise relies on its workshops in which the farmers, the spinners, the weavers, the tailors and the partners share daily the same ambitions.
The Spinning, a Crucial Step of the Process
The spinning is the stage which consists in transforming the lotus fiber in a thread.
After cleaning, spinners carefully cut around the stems and pull their extremities to extract the lotus fibers. Twelve layers of fiber must be superimposed and rolled with precaution and precision to produce a high quality thread.
The second trade secret is in line with what is probably the most meticulous part of the process: to put the different pieces of thread together without visible junction and without any weakness. The thread has to be very regular. Without this attention, it will break during the weaving and decrease the quality of the fabric. One meter of lotus fabric needs 3000 meters of lotus fibers.
When the thread is finished, it is wound on to a skein winder and dried.
One spinner produces 250 meters of thread per day. To produce one jacket, it needs 4 meters of fabric or 12000 meters of fiber, which means 2 months of work for a spinner.
Because of its complexity, this process must be realized exclusively by hand.
Contacts :
Awen Delaval, General Manager
Tel : +855 63 96 53 10 or +855 12 28 59 30
Mail : gm@samatoa.com
Facebook : Samatoa - Twitter : @samatoa2003
Samatoa Lotus Farm- Lotus flower transformed into textile
Cambodian women making lotus textile out of fibers inside the lotus stem.
A lotus farm in Cambodia
The whole family is taking care of different stages of treating the lotus seeds