Model in black silk velvet dress with a hand-dyed ivory mulberry silk shawl flowing in the wind — Silk & Bears

THE AUTUMN EDIT · HAND-DYED IN VIETNAM

Silk for the evenings that matter.

Hand-dyed mulberry silk and hand-embroidered velvet, made by artisans in Vietnam — for autumn weddings, long dinners and the gifts ahead.

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Model in hand-embroidered black butterfly silk velvet dress with a hand-dyed emerald silk shawl — Silk & Bears Velvet Atelier

VELVET ATELIER · AUTUMN

Hand-embroidered velvet, for the season's evenings.

Silk velvet, embroidered by hand by artisans in Vietnam. Made for autumn weddings, long dinners and the evenings you will want to remember — finished with a hand-dyed silk shawl.

OUR STORY

A love letter to my daughter, written in silk.

My name is Tran. My daughter was born in March 2021 — half-English, half-Vietnamese, and the reason I am building this slowly, properly, by hand.

I started Silk & Bears a little before her, in the quiet of the 2021 lockdown, the year I turned forty-two. By the time she arrived, I knew exactly what I wanted this to become for her: something beautiful, made carefully, that she could one day inherit and recognise as hers. Not bought. Built — the way the women in my family have always made things that were meant to last.

Every Silk & Bears scarf is hand-dyed in Vietnam, in workshops where this craft has been kept alive for generations. The artisans are the makers. I am their champion — and the keeper of this thread between Vietnam, here, and the small girl who will one day ask where she came from.

— Tran, Founder

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