Angkor Silk Farm
Angkor Silk Farm
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Angkor Silk Farm belongs to Artisans Angkor, a social-business enterprise aiming at reviving Khmer cultural heritage while giving job opportunities to young Cambodians living in rural areas.Free guided tours through the eight hectare farm give a unique insight into the different stages involved in silk production, from the mulberry tree orchards, silkworm breeding, the spinning mills and the dying and weaving processes in the very traditional way. A shop is there for visitors as well. Tours are in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean,Japanese or Khmer.
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Dr. Issa Abu-Dayyeh
Amman, Jordan3,066 contributions
Jan 2020 • Friends
I have always wondered how the details of silk making go. I finally got that chance.
Use a grab to order a Tuk-Tuk, should cost around 5$ from the center, the farm is on the highway leading to airport. My advice, once you arrive, negotiate with driver to come back for you in an hour and double his pay (offer him 10$). The farm is on a dirt road off the highway, and better secure your ride back, as might be difficult to find a ride once you exit.
Definitely have one staff member act as a guide, don’t do the tour alone, his explanations make all the difference. The tour is free, and the guy expects a gratuity, I suggest anywhere between 5-10$ based on how cooperative he was and how big your group is.
You will go through the whole process of silk making, growing caterpillars and feeding them, making cocoons, extracting raw silk threads by boiling the cocoons, extracting the fine silk, tying and dying silk, and finally weaving the silk.
The tour takes about 30 minutes, and ends in a souvenir shop.
I would dedicate an hour for the whole experience. If you are into silk and would like to know more about how it is made, this is an ideal opportunity. I throughly enjoyed it.
Highly recommended!
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Use a grab to order a Tuk-Tuk, should cost around 5$ from the center, the farm is on the highway leading to airport. My advice, once you arrive, negotiate with driver to come back for you in an hour and double his pay (offer him 10$). The farm is on a dirt road off the highway, and better secure your ride back, as might be difficult to find a ride once you exit.
Definitely have one staff member act as a guide, don’t do the tour alone, his explanations make all the difference. The tour is free, and the guy expects a gratuity, I suggest anywhere between 5-10$ based on how cooperative he was and how big your group is.
You will go through the whole process of silk making, growing caterpillars and feeding them, making cocoons, extracting raw silk threads by boiling the cocoons, extracting the fine silk, tying and dying silk, and finally weaving the silk.
The tour takes about 30 minutes, and ends in a souvenir shop.
I would dedicate an hour for the whole experience. If you are into silk and would like to know more about how it is made, this is an ideal opportunity. I throughly enjoyed it.
Highly recommended!
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Written January 8, 2020
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Dear " issa81",
On behalf of Artisans Angkor team, I would like to thank you for your kind comment and for recommending our place!
Indeed, we offer free guided tour to our customers to allow them to discover silk process making from silkworm culture to scarf weaving. We also offer free shuttle transportation, available every day at 9.30 am and 1.30 pm, from our main workshops in the city center so you can take advantage to use our shuttle to visit also for free our handicraft workshops in town and discover Cambodian ancestral know how!
I'm really glad that you enjoyed your visit and found it instructive!
Thanks again for visiting us and supporting our project.
Kind regards,
Written January 16, 2020
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
Barbara
Shanghai, China15 contributions
Jan 2020 • Couples
We really enjoyed our spontaneous visit. The tour guide explained in detail how silk is produced and how the beautiful designs are created. The gift shop features hand made products based on fair trade principles - highly recommended for a visit!
Written January 28, 2020
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Victoria C
Paris, France20 contributions
Jan 2020 • Friends
Artisans of Angkor will give you a free shuttle from the town to the silk farm. We had a guided tour to show us around and it was very interesting. The social business model was also very inspiring and extremely well done. The items that are produced are also beautiful and high quality. Highly recommended!
Written January 11, 2020
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Dear "Victoria C",
On behalf of Artisans Angkor team, I would like to thank you for your nice comment and for recommending our place!
Indeed, we offer free guided tour to our customers to allow them to discover silk process making from silkworm culture to scarf weaving and as you mentioned it, we also offer free shuttle transportation, available every day at 9.30 am and 1.30 pm, from our main workshops in the city center. You can take advantage of the free shuttle to also visit for free our handicraft workshops in town and discover Cambodian ancestral know how!
I'm really glad that you enjoyed your visit and found it instructive!
Thanks again for visiting us and supporting our project.
Kind regards,
Written January 16, 2020
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
Alexa
13 contributions
Jan 2020 • Couples
With a free shuttle in a nice air conditioned van from the Artisans Angkor shop, the silk farm can’t be missed. You get to learn all about how the silk is produced from the silk worm, and how it is processed to make products. You see it all in action. At the end of the tour you can browse through an on-site shop of handmade products. It was very informative and worth the time!
Written February 1, 2020
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lynchmurray
Noosa Heads, Australia152 contributions
Feb 2020
A twice daily free bus was deployed from the main factory in Siem Reap. About a 25 minute ride through the countryside in an air- con bus was interesting before taking a tour of the farm commencing from the life cycle of silk worms right through to the final silk product production. We were taken around the factory watching each step of the process. It was very interesting. Would well recommend the morning or afternoon trip.
Written February 6, 2020
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Cathy M
17 contributions
Mar 2020 • Friends
We had our own driver so we just showed up around 3 pm. It took a bit of asking to get directions to the starting point where a guide was available, but it was a short walk. No charge for the guide but we gave him a tip as it was very interesting. Since it was late in the day each station was not running at full capacity but we got to see each step and to taste a boiled silk worm. I have a much better understanding of the process and now I can recognize really good quality silk products. The store has a variety of lovely (some expensive) products.
Written March 7, 2020
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globeseeker007
globeseeker0073,295 contributions
This place was located a few kilometers from town. When we arrived, a guide met us and showed us around which took all of 15 or 20 minutes. The workers were at lunch and we only saw one or two people working the looms. The process of turning the silk into goods looked very labor intensive. Then we were ushered into a gift shop with a lot of expensive silk products. I could have skipped this tour altogether.
Written February 8, 2009
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Lukewatsero
Philippines222 contributions
Jun 2016 • Friends
Artisans D' Angkor Silk Farm is located in the Puok District of Siem Reap Province, a 20-minute drive from the Siem Reap District (Proper). The tourguide and shuttle (back and forth) are 100% free; just a reservation for your seat. The entire tour is amazing as well as the finished products which can be bought for a reasonable price. Snack Store is present for craving tummy.
Written June 23, 2016
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MartinFrize
West Midlands, UK90 contributions
Oct 2016
If you don't appreciate where silk comes from, how it's harvested, the process of manufacture, the patience, skill and workmanship that goes into making traditional handmade silk, then this is the place to come and see.
Entrance is free, you are provided with a tour guide in your chosen language which takes around 45 minutes if done in a perfunctory manner. Longer if your more inquisitive.
The farm is funded in part by France and offers local communities employment, health care, education, skill development in numerous different arena's, empowerment and self respect. It's the region's largest employer with 23 such farms in operation so your visit is also an opportunity to ask about the organisation, the structure of the cooperative and talk to workers if you want to engage.
All you have to do is get there. It's about 20 clicks out of town. The journey there can be as much an experience as going to the temples. See the rice fields enroute, roadside craft includes traditional boat building, local craftwork, painting studios, clothing sales, "working temples" to reflect in, and snacks. Ask the driver to stop and be prepared to engage! On the way, stop at the West reservoir where the locals chill at the weekend. You'll also pass an opportunity to ride in a traditional Khmer cart around a village, pulled by oxen.
Easily a half day and a welcome change of scene from temples. The products are hand made treasures, not mass produced night market fodder, so expect prices that reflect this. Your dollar is more ethically spent here than in Pub Street one might suggest.
Enjoy, engage, listen, give and smile back. Have fun.
Entrance is free, you are provided with a tour guide in your chosen language which takes around 45 minutes if done in a perfunctory manner. Longer if your more inquisitive.
The farm is funded in part by France and offers local communities employment, health care, education, skill development in numerous different arena's, empowerment and self respect. It's the region's largest employer with 23 such farms in operation so your visit is also an opportunity to ask about the organisation, the structure of the cooperative and talk to workers if you want to engage.
All you have to do is get there. It's about 20 clicks out of town. The journey there can be as much an experience as going to the temples. See the rice fields enroute, roadside craft includes traditional boat building, local craftwork, painting studios, clothing sales, "working temples" to reflect in, and snacks. Ask the driver to stop and be prepared to engage! On the way, stop at the West reservoir where the locals chill at the weekend. You'll also pass an opportunity to ride in a traditional Khmer cart around a village, pulled by oxen.
Easily a half day and a welcome change of scene from temples. The products are hand made treasures, not mass produced night market fodder, so expect prices that reflect this. Your dollar is more ethically spent here than in Pub Street one might suggest.
Enjoy, engage, listen, give and smile back. Have fun.
Written October 18, 2016
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NiaHans
Jakarta, Indonesia923 contributions
Apr 2013 • Couples
It took around 30 minutes from our hotel to reach the silk farm, it opens from 8 AM till 5 PM and there's a bus transfer from the Artisan Angkor main showroom at 9.30 AM and 1.30 PM. The first thing we saw as we reach there is the mulberry garden, the mulberry leafs are the food for the silk worm.
We were greeted right away by the guide provided by the silk farm, they gave us a tour starting from information building.
Then to the place where they grew the silk worm from eggs to larva to little worms until it becomes large enough to build it's cocoon. Since the worm breeding is in a house of stilts, the below stilts are soaked in a bit of water to avoid ants to come in and attack the worms.
Then we were brought to the place where they collect the thread from the cocoon, the 1st layer is the thread to make raw silk and the 2nd layer is the thread to make silk, both has different texture. All of the product produced here is fully utilized : cocoon for the silk thread, silk worm to be consumed (local delicacy) mulberry leafs for the silk worm food and mulberry to be consumed by human. After dying the thread with natural coloring, they spin the thread manually or with a machine, then they combine from lots of spools of thread in same color to make it even layering by finely combing it with semi machine since this process still needs to be done by man (or woman to be exact).
Afterwards we were brought to another chamber where they will process the even thread with motif by covering with plastics then dying the thread again and repeat the process until it follows the design from the designer, then the threads are spin again manually.
Then only after this process can the weaving start, it is said that the weaving is using the 2 on top and 2 below technique. It's really beautiful and this trip made me appreciate silk much more, to make one fabric can take 3-6 months for making starting from the egg stage depending on the level of difficulty of the making.
We were brought to their exhibition room which has collections of old traditional equipments to make silk, and there are examples of their traditional clothes made of silk as well. At the exit of the museum our guide informed that this is the end of our tour, the guide is free of charge by the company, they gave a very good tour and very patient in answering our questions.
I recommend to go to this place, especially if you are templed-out and it's worth seeing.
We were greeted right away by the guide provided by the silk farm, they gave us a tour starting from information building.
Then to the place where they grew the silk worm from eggs to larva to little worms until it becomes large enough to build it's cocoon. Since the worm breeding is in a house of stilts, the below stilts are soaked in a bit of water to avoid ants to come in and attack the worms.
Then we were brought to the place where they collect the thread from the cocoon, the 1st layer is the thread to make raw silk and the 2nd layer is the thread to make silk, both has different texture. All of the product produced here is fully utilized : cocoon for the silk thread, silk worm to be consumed (local delicacy) mulberry leafs for the silk worm food and mulberry to be consumed by human. After dying the thread with natural coloring, they spin the thread manually or with a machine, then they combine from lots of spools of thread in same color to make it even layering by finely combing it with semi machine since this process still needs to be done by man (or woman to be exact).
Afterwards we were brought to another chamber where they will process the even thread with motif by covering with plastics then dying the thread again and repeat the process until it follows the design from the designer, then the threads are spin again manually.
Then only after this process can the weaving start, it is said that the weaving is using the 2 on top and 2 below technique. It's really beautiful and this trip made me appreciate silk much more, to make one fabric can take 3-6 months for making starting from the egg stage depending on the level of difficulty of the making.
We were brought to their exhibition room which has collections of old traditional equipments to make silk, and there are examples of their traditional clothes made of silk as well. At the exit of the museum our guide informed that this is the end of our tour, the guide is free of charge by the company, they gave a very good tour and very patient in answering our questions.
I recommend to go to this place, especially if you are templed-out and it's worth seeing.
Written June 9, 2013
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Dear visitor,
Thank you very much for visiting us.
It's wonderful to see how informative you've found the guided tour!
You know everything about how to make silk now !
Thanks again,
Cheers!
Artisans Angkor's team
Written June 10, 2013
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
u uday
1 contribution
How to get to and return from Artisan Angkor.
We have an evening flight, so would like to see this place in the morning and return by noon to siem reap center
121Maeve23
County Wicklow, Ireland20 contributions
Same as above. I got a tuk tuk and it was a great way to be up close with the landscape on the way to the farm and the tuk tuk driver waits for you while you get a tour. I was on my own and got a personal tour. It was really good.
Renee
Brisbane, Australia7 contributions
Hi, Do they take credit card in the shop or is it cash only? Thanks
Christine B.
Houston, TX115 contributions
I used a credit card (Visa) this past April with no issue.
keli
Rome, Italy
Hello. Would like to go for the tour. Do you know if i can just arrive or i need yo book from advance. Thank you!
Jervin100To
21 contributions
Hi, would like to know how long would the entire trip to silk farm take? If i take 0930 shuttle bus, what time would i return back to siem reap downtown? thanks!
Emarie B
Paarl, South Africa726 contributions
Allow 75 minutes each way for traveling and 75 minutes for the tour, so you will be back at about 14h00
Liesl C
Phnom Penh, Cambodia118 contributions
3 April 2019, Hi there, just like to ask about the Silk Farm in Siem Reap. Would you suggest to go by self, not with a tour guide?
tanks Liesl
Artisans Angkor
Siem Reap, Cambodia1 contribution
Dear, Thank you for your interest in the Silk Farm.
We offer free shuttle bus departure two times per day at 9:30 and 13:30 departure from Siem Reap mainshop , pre booking at our e-mail or via the website of Artisans Angkor.
At the Silk Farm we offer free guide in multi languages, daily visit the workshop from the mulberry tree until weaving.
We look forward to welcoming you
Artisans Angkor
starlet250
plano, tx1 contribution
What time do the tours run- we are thinking of arranging our own transport vs catching the shuttle.
Thanks!
ConnoisseurGal
Calgary, Canada190 contributions
The Silk Farm is not very far away. We just arranged for a taxi to take us there, wait for us and take us back. Be sure eto agree on the price of the taxi first. Our hotel concierge arranged the price for us. It helps if you take the taxi and go to several places at once.
สวัสดีค่ะ รบกวนถามเกี่ยวกับการเดินทางหน่อยนะคะ
ไม่ทราบว่าจาก เสียมราบไป angkor silk farm สามารถเดินทางยังไงได้บ้างคะ
KRICH2000
Friendswood, TX160 contributions
How far by Tuk Tuk is the silk farm from the general market?
Should I get a driver and car?
Anabel M
43 contributions
Get the free shuttle bus from Artisans Angkor, maybe better to book in advance.. 9.30am and 1.30pm... It took us around 30min to get to the silk farm
KRICH2000
Friendswood, TX160 contributions
Is there a tour guide at the silk farm? And how long does the tour last?
Jan_Sar
Phnom Penh, Cambodia12 contributions
Most likely. But this can be acquired when you get to your hotel no problem. I am currently not in Cambodia but if you wish I can get you in touch with a great guide.
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