Sauvage takes its name from the French word for “savage” or “wild”, a good description for this exquisite silk base cloth. Tussah silk describes a certain type of raw, organic silk that is harvested from the silk worms after they have hatched from the cocoon, giving the silk a thicker, gutsier, and less delicate nature. Due to the various types of pulp and leaves the silk worms eat, the natural color of the tussah silk is of various shades of brown and natural - these non-dyed fibers are what is used for color -08 Natural; color -10 Bleached is not dyed either but woven from bleached silk fibers.