Designer Erez Nevi Pana has combined cruelty-free ahimsa silk with the baskets commonly used to grow silkworms, to create five tapestries that "expose the beauty in ethical production".
The basic fabric of the tapestries is cruelty-free silk, often known as peace silk, a material developed in India in the 1990s.

Part of the body of each tapestry is smooth like traditional silk but Nevi Pana has left textured loose threads in other areas. For this he used the process of soumak weaving, in which knots sit on top of the warp threads to add bulk and dimension.
Nevi Pana unravelled the wicker baskets that are used in the silk industry for growing silk cocoons and integrated sections of the deconstructed basket into each design. The tapestries are designed to be hung on the wall as an artistic piece.
The production of ahimsa – meaning the principle of nonviolence toward all living things – differs from that of the traditional silk industry, and takes longer.
"In traditional silk production the silkworms are growing inside baskets on shelves and once they have finished spinning the larva is being boiled alive inside the cocoons," explains Nevi Pana. "It saves time and they get the full length of the yarn."

To make ahimsa silk, the producers must wait for the moth to leave the cocoon before they collect the silk yarn. The moth breaks the shell of the cocoon when it emerges and flies away, which makes the length of the yarn shorter and t...