Matka Silk is obtained from waste Mulberry silk by hand spinning without removing the gum (sericin). Cocoons required to produce Matka are mainly obtained from Karnataka and Kashmir but spinning is mostly done in the villages of Malda and Murshidabad districts in West Bengal by women by hand spinning.
Filaments of the cocoons of this silk from Bihar were originally unwound and plied together on a mud pot or Matka (Today, they are likely to be reeled on a woman's thigh)
Matka is a heavy weight silk fabric made from very thick yarns. The yarns are obtained from short ends of silk from Mulberry silkworms and spun by hand without removing the gum (sericin). As such there are slubs and irregularities that give the fabric a unique character. It looks something like a tweed, but the fibres are all the same colour
