BambooTails

Chiang Mai · Bangkok · Paris · Tokyo · Kyoto · Milan · New York · Seoul

Fourteen outcasts.One sacred weave.A maison reborn.

Two dogs founded the house. The masters who joined it are a cat, a chick, a tortoise and a panda — because when the factories forgot how to do this, the ones who remembered were not who anybody expected.

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A cream Pomeranian wearing the Golden Palms silk scarf in red and gold, seated on black leather

In the atelier

Golden Palms — €249

Batch 01 — 50 numbered cuts

01The last handloom in San Kamphaeng was quiet today.
02They had no silk, no money, and no buyer. He said it anyway.
03This warehouse does not sell to outsiders. She did not ask.
04Five boarding houses said no. Then it started to sleet.
05They were given four minutes. It took ninety seconds.
06He burned a favour he cannot get back to open one door.
07She studied it for four minutes. Then she cut it in half.
08He buried two fashion houses. Tonight he shows them the books.
09Dip early and the whole season is wrong. Nobody will know until evening.
10Eleven minutes. She was right about every one of them.
11Four hundred and twelve days later, she remembered the dog's name.
12The elevator was out. So the buyer went down the freight ramp.
13Ten thousand units. More money than they have ever seen. One condition.
14Three borders, forty hours, one sample, and every flight grounded.

The live chronicle

Fourteen chapters. None of them end.

Told a minute at a time, in the shape a phone holds. Three threads run underneath and none of them are written to resolve — a house is not a thing you complete.

All 14 chapters

The house

Two founders. Twelve masters.

Meet them all
Tao, the Shiba-Spitz pup from Chiang Mai

Tao

Chiang Mai · Shiba-Spitz pup

The Heir — who was handed the thread

Lumi, the Toy Poodle from Paris

Lumi

Paris · Toy Poodle

The Architect — who said it out loud first

And the guild — twelve species, eight cities, one craft each

Miko, the Shiba Inu

Miko

Sora, the Scottish Fold

Sora

Ren, the Panda

Ren

Luna, the Italian Greyhound

Luna

Chika, the Fox

Chika

Bao, the Bichon Frise

Bao

Pika, the Chick

Pika

Hikari, the Rabbit

Hikari

Yuki, the Penguin

Yuki

Kuma, the Bear

Kuma

Kai, the Tortoise

Kai

Mochi, the Mochi

Mochi

The atelier

Batch 01 — fifty numbered cuts

Hand-reeled in Northern Thailand, hand-rolled to order. Fifty is not a marketing number — it is how many one pair of hands can finish before the season turns.

The full collection

The ledger

What you are actually paying for

The silk
Four-ply Thai, reeled by hand. A skilled reeler makes enough for two scarves in a day.
The hem
Forty minutes per edge. Four edges. It cannot be hurried and it cannot be delegated.
The number
Fifty per batch, numbered on the label. When they are gone the print is not cut again.

The laboratory

Five hundred votes cuts it for real

Drawn, not made. Everything here is labelled a concept on its own card, because a house that blurs the line between what it imagines and what it ships only gets to do it once. Back one and we cut fifty.

  • Concept — not for sale

    The Paris Jacket

    Quilted silk, cut like a bomber. Drawn after a week of showing the scarves in Paris.

  • Concept — not for sale

    The Kimono

    A full silk kimono, wrapped and tied at the back. Absurd, and we keep drawing it anyway.

The list hears first

New chapters and new batches, before they go anywhere else.

  • Hand-rolled silk, made in small batches
  • Presented in person to luxury boutiques in Paris
  • In conversation with the Jane Goodall Institute