Lamba Mena

Lamba Mena

Material: Woven fabric.

Location: Student center

Lamba Mena is the most sumptuous fabric of all Malagasy weaving. Soie Sauvage (Raw Silk) in glorious shades of emerald green, deep purple, scarlet, burnt orange, walnut and ash white is woven by women. This fabric was traditionally reserved for the “Famadihany” (Turning of the dead) ceremonies when ancestors are recovered in magnificents shrouds, some signed in beads by the weavers.