World 106, Exploration A

Female fashion model sitting by a peaceful lake.

In World 106, each citizen receives 20kg of silk yarn as their birthright.

In ‘Land of Silk’, you will see zero waste and subtraction cutting method, as a form of creating no waste, and the respect it gives to silk being the only fibre.

This Exploration was contributed by Sindhu, Dawama, Keran and Jerome (located in Singapore), developed from a World contributed by this group, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.

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