Silk fabric and its singularity
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Silk fabric is such a fabric which is made from threads and it is spun by the silk caterpillars. Silk caterpillars live on some specific tress and eat their leaves to live. These tresses are cultivated in order to cultivate these worms. Mulberry silk worm is one of them and most famous among them because mulberry silk fabric is one of finest silk made used for cloth manufacturing. The silk moths make their cocoon. Before hatching of silk worm into moth the cocoons are soaked in hot water to produce filaments. These filaments are then spun to form silk fibers which are processed to silk fabric.
There are mainly four types of silk fabric. They are mulberry silk, muga silk from east, tasar silk and eri silk. Mulberry silk is the most popular and demanded silk among all these. This type of silk is gotten from cultivating silk worms which are fed mulberry leaves. These types of silk worms are called as Bombyx mori L. Commercial silks are produced from this mulberry silk. Another silk fabric is muga silk. It is produced largely in eastern countries like India. In India in Assam muga silk is cultivated and it has a sweet golden yellowish color. Antheraea assamensis silkworms feeding on the leaves of Sorn and Soalu plant make this silk fabric. Philosamia ricini silkworms produce eri or endi silk. Tasar or tussah silk is used mainly for making your home more beautiful and gorgeous. It has a copper color and it has less glow than mulberry silk.
This amazing fabric has a unique glow to it that you won't find in any other kind of material. This is due to the fiber structure which is like a triangular prism. This makes the fabric reflect light from many angles and gives it that specific, wonderful and shimmering effect. Raw silk fabric is a bit different from other types though. What differs between raw silk and other kinds is that the sericin, that naturally protects the fabric, has not been removed. This gives the raw kind a stiffer and duller appearance than other types of silk. It is beautiful in its own unique way.
You can test silk fabric’s durability with a simple test. You can take a steel filament of a diameter and now take same diametric cloth of silk. You can watch that silk fabric will stay longer than the steel filament. It will break early than the silk. As it has been said that any color or dye gets perfect matched and sustainable on this silk fabric because it has moisture absorbing capacity is great which makes it cool in summers and warm in winters.
It definitely is something that makes us feel wonderful and it brings about a luxurious feeling. Many have been the attempts to copy the qualities of this special type of material, but it has not yet been successful. That unique shimmer in combination with the pleasant sensations it gives our skin is only found in silk fabrics. |
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Author Resource:-
The Redtex, Inc. Company also provides Upholstery Fabric, Interior Design Fabric and Hospitality Fabric for common people’s use.
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By :
Michele Carelse Stephen
Submitted
2010-06-08 23:37:08 |
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