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About Silk Dupion

About Silk Dupion
Pure silk dupion is a uniquely beautiful fabric that has a luxurious textured quality and richness that
cannot be reproduced in other materials. Not surprisingly, it is the most popular silk in the world as it
has a fabulous natural sheen and distinctive weave that makes it much sought after.
This stunning fabric is made using raw silk yarns that are turned into a fine thread which is tightly woven
together to produce a crisp fabric with a highly lustrous surface and a prominent textured *slub that is
irregular in appearance.
Dupion (also referred to as douppioni, doupioni or dupioni) is a plain weave silk fabric, produced using
fine yarn in the warp and uneven yarn reeled from two or more entangled cocoons in the weft. This
creates a tightly woven fabric with a lustrous surface and a crisp handle.
As a natural fibre, there may be variations in shade or weave which are characteristics of pure silk. We
use a very high quality powerwoven silk dupion which is mainly smooth but will still have *slubs
throughout. This is part of the beauty of silk dupion and one of the ways to spot if it’s pure silk.
If you’re unsure of the texture and weave of silk dupion, we recommend that you order a swatch
before ordering to help you decide if it is right for you.
*Slubs
A slubbed fabric is created with slight knots and knobbles, which can be seen as thicker, raised threads
on the fabric surface. The slubs in the silk thread occur naturally when silk worms spin cocoons close
together. These slubs are NOT considered as imperfections, they are an integral part of the character
of the silk.

 

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