Soie de Lune sources its silk from China, Laos and France. The French silk used is a fine, pure high-grade filature silk. The Chinese and Lao silks are high-quality, more robust filature silks. One kilo produces up to 14 kilometers of thread that can weave about four shawls, comprising about 3.5 kilometers of silk thread.
Weaving is done on a traditional horizontal loom which is formed by stretching the warp threads (stretched on a loom to be crossed by weft) between the two front and end beams. Intricate weft (threads woven across warp) designs are then created by combining continuous patterns spanning the width of the loom with discontinuous ones that are localized to bring out a design. Batons are put in place to mark the limits of the design and to guide the weavers as they work.

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