Narrator: Humans have been making silk for centuries ... are joined to create a thread thick enough to weave into fabric. One yard of silk fabric costs approximately $100. What makes it worth ...

While this fabric has been made for years in Myanmar ... by a few skilled craftspeople across the world. But making this silk isn't easy. Extracting enough lotus silk for one scarf can take ...

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