My favorite shop in Addis is Sabahar. WWW. Sabahar.com They are a member of The World Fair Trade Organization. It is owned by a Canadian family who have been here in Addis for 20 or so years! They make beautiful textiles from Ethiopian cotton and silk. They have their own silk worms and visitors can watch the worms doing their thing! You can also enjoy watching the spinners and weavers at work. They make blankets, towels, table coverings, scarves, shawls, and the list goes on! Brittany picked up a beautiful scarf from here.
This is where the magic begins....Silkworm larvae
Next up, hungry worms
Waiting to finish drying then on to the spinners
The weaving room
Some finished product drying
Hanging scarves in the showroom
We took The Jeungs here before we left for Kenya together. Brenda loved this little shop and so I will use it as bait to get them to come back :)
Kyson is obviously still trying to figure the whole silk worm to scarf production :)
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