Silk Fabrics
Silk fabric has an incredibly smooth surface and is extremely soft and pleasant to touch. It doesn’t irritate even sensitive skin and you feel like you are hardly wearing anything at all. It caresses your body in softness.
Silk is free of any chemicals and contains only natural substances. Silk fiber is similar to human hair. It is 97% protein, 3% fat and wax. It also has 18 amino acids, which have a positive effect on a person’s skin. Silk is hypoallergenic. It doesn’t attract dust mites and resist dust, fungus, mold and some other allergens. Silk helps decrease skin’s loss of moisture and because of this it promotes rejuvenation of the skin, prevents to some degree effects of ageing and relieves dry, flaky skin conditions by locking moisture in and ensuring it stays on your skin.
Unique Properties of Silk
Silk keeps you cool on hot days and also preserves your body heat in the cold. It perfectly adjusts to your body temperature and provides thermal balance. Silk is highly absorbent and dries fast too, being able to absorb moisture up to 30% of its own weight yet remain dry to the touch. At the same time silk thread simply increases in size, and good air circulation promotes rapid evaporation of excessive moisture. So silk fabric absorbs perspiration while letting the skin breathe.
Silk fabric is prized for its shimmering appearance and doesn’t lose its natural sheen with time. Silk doesn’t create static electricity easily, so won’t cling to your body like synthetics.
Silk consists of very strong natural fibers in spite of its delicate appearance. The strength of a silk thread is equal to the strength of a steel wire of the same diameter. So the fabric is really durable and retains its versatile beauty for years. It takes colour well, mixes well with other natural fibers like cotton, wool and linen. Silk fiber is naturally elastic and can stretch up to 20% without breaking.
The technology of making the silk thread is unique – it is obtained by unwinding the miniature cocoons of silkworms. The secret to the manufacture of silk for a long time was known only in China. Despite the fact that now silk fabric is made in India, Brazil, and other countries, China remains to this day the largest producer of silk.
