| Brocade
silk |
A woven silk, rich with
interwoven design, decorated with gold and silver thread. |
| Charmeuse
silk |
Luxurious,
a popular dress silk. It has a shiny satin face and dull back.
The fabric is soft in feeling and drapes very well. |
| Chiffon
silk |
This fabric
is softer, thinner, sheer and transparent. Woven from tightly
twisted yarn and has crepe like texture drapes beautifully. |
| China
Silk - (Habotai) |
The term means
soft as down in Japanese. This fabric is smooth even weave
it comes in various weights from light to heavy. |
| Crepe
silk |
Crepe is heavier
and more textured then crepe-de-chine, but not as slippery.
The heavier most luxuries fabrics, and are made from three
or four ply yarns. |
| Crepe-de-chine
silk |
Crepe-de-chine
has a smooth slippery surface. It drapes beautifully and is
available in several weights. |
| Doupioni
(Duppione) silk |
Silk reeled
from double cocoons. Silk doupioni is a crisp fabric with
irregular slubs in the yarn, Most popular silk for wedding
gowns. |
| Faille
silk |
Ribbed silk
with crosswise rib effect. Fabric is lightweight, soft in
feel and a slightly grainy. |
| Georgette
silk |
This fabric
is thin and soft and has a grainy sheer texture. It drapes
beautifully. |
| Iridescent
silk |
color effect
made by the use of warp ends and filling picks of varying
tint or hue in weaving. |
| Jacquard
silk |
This fabric
is smooth, elegant and is made on a jacquard loom. The fabric
has a soft or slightly crisp hand depending on the weave. |
| Jersey
silk |
A close-fitting
knitted silk suitable for gloves lingerie and sportswear. |
| Silk
Linen |
Silk linen
is often woven by hand. It is an all silk fabric or silk/linen
blend that has been woven To look like linen. It has a basket
weave. |
| Lame |
A silk brocade
woven fabric embroidered with metal thread |
| Noil
silk |
This fabric
is often called raw silk, it has been labeled inaccurately.
Raw silk is reeled from the cocoon, which contains its original
gum or serin. Silk noil has a dull finish and is made from
the shorter fibbers separated from the longer ones during
the process of combing. |
| Momme |
Japanese weight
equal to 3.75 grams. 25 yards x 1.49 inches of one momme silk
weights 3.75 grams |
| Moiré |
Cloth has
the desirable watermarked effect in the finished fabric. |
| Natural
fibers |
silk and wool
is animal fibers, cotton and hemp are plant fibers. |
| Organza
silk |
This fabric
is thin, transparent and crisp and is plainly woven. Fabric
may crush or muss but is easily pressed. |
| Peau
de soie silk |
This fabric
has a dull satin finish. It has a moderate stiff drape that
falls in to wide cones |
| Raw
silk |
Silk reeled
from the cacoon, which contains its original gum or serin. |
| Sandwashed
silk |
Any silk fabric
that has been treated to an abrasive wash, using send and
chemicals. |
| Sericulture |
the art and
science of raising silk worms for the production of silk. |
| Silk |
the very fine
fiber produced by the silk moth caterpillar when it makes
its cocoon. Silken twine is made from the fibers and this
can be woven to make fabrics. |
| Surah
silk |
A soft, twill
woven silk |
| Taffeta |
This fabric
is supposed to have originated in Persia. The fabric is smooth,
tightly woven with fine warp yarn and has a plain weave. Silk
Taffeta has a crisp drape. This fabric comes in various weights. |
| Tussah
(Tasar or Tassar) silk |
Fabric made
with silk from uncultivated or wild Tussah silk warm. |
| Velvet
silk |
This fabric
has a soft, limp hand and a very fragile pile that crushes
easily. |
