Madagascar's textile heritage centres on the lamba, the draped cloth worn across the island, woven in regional variants from wild silk, cotton, or raffia. Among the Betsileo people of the Fianarantsoa highlands, the lamba arindrano — woven from local wild silk — remains a living but fragile craft, sustained today by a handful of weavers around Ambalavao.
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Madagascar's textile heritage centres on the lamba, the draped cloth worn across the island, woven in regional variants from wild silk, cotton, or raffia. Among the Betsileo people of the Fianarantsoa highlands, the lamba arindrano — woven from local wild silk — remains a living but fragile craft, sustained today by a handful of weavers around Ambalavao.
