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  2. Dupioni - Wikipedia

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    Dupioni fabric. Dress in brown dupioni, 1940s/early 1950s Sweden. Dupioni (also referred to as douppioni, doupioni or dupion) 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 tightly woven yardage with a highly-lustrous surface and a crisp hand.

  3. Silk - Wikipedia

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    The production of silk originated in China in the Neolithic period, although it would eventually reach other places of the world (Yangshao culture, 4th millennium BC). Silk production remained confined to China until the Silk Road opened at some point during the latter part of the 1st millennium BC, though China maintained its virtual monopoly over silk production for another thousand years.

  4. List of animals that produce silk - Wikipedia

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    The mussel Pinna nobilis creates silk to bond itself to rocks. It is used to make sea silk. Spiders make spider silk for various purposes such as weaving their webs, protecting their eggs or as a safety line. The amphipod Peramphithoe femorata uses silk to make a nest out of kelp blades. Another amphipod, Crassicorophium bonellii, use silk to ...

  5. I’ve Always Slept on a Faux Silk Pillowcase—Here’s How the ...

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    While polyester satin is a human-made fiber, silk is a natural fiber spun by silkworms. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...

  6. Shantung (fabric) - Wikipedia

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    Shantung is a type of silk plain weave fabric historically from the Chinese province of Shandong. [1] [2] It is similar to dupioni, but is slightly thinner and less irregular. Shantung is often used for bridal gowns. [3]

  7. Wild silk - Wikipedia

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    The colour and quality of the silk depends on the climate and soil. [20] Antheraea yamamai (Guénerin-Méneville, 1861) – the tensan (天蚕) silk moth. The tensan silk moth has been cultivated in Japan for more than 1,000 years. It produces a naturally white silk but does not dye well, though it is very strong and elastic.

  8. Sericulture - Wikipedia

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    Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm.

  9. Silk mill - Wikipedia

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    Silk is a naturally produced fibre obtained from many species of the silk moth. In 1700 the favoured silk was produced by a moth (Bombyx mori), that spun a cocoon to protect the larvae. The larvae fed on mulberry leaves grown in Italy. Silk fibres from the Bombyx mori silkworm have a triangular cross section with rounded corners, 5–10 μm wide.

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