Silk Classification Series Spun Silk & Silk Spinning

Silk Classification Series Spun Silk & Silk Spinning

Silk has many excellent properties, such as good hygroscopicity, skin-friendliness, soft and luxurious luster, etc.

In the development of silk culture and products for more than 6,000 years, artisans and technicians in silk developed many silk fabrics of various styles, which are widely used in clothing and home textiles. 

Fabric Classification: According to the structure, appearance, and style of the fabric, silk

fabrics are usually divided into 14 categories: spun, silk, satin, silk, gauze, luo, damask, crepe, ge damask, crepe, ge, silk, velvet, wool and brocade.

Spun Silk

Silk Spinning

1. Spun silk

Introduction: Spun silk fabrics are plain weave fabrics. The warp and weft yarns are generally not twisted. Twisted or weakly twisted. They are made of mulberry silk, spun silk, viscose fiber, or polyester fiber as raw materials. 

The texture is smooth, dense, light, and relatively durable. Textile fabrics can be finished by yarn-dyed weaving, bleaching, dyeing, and printing.

The main types are electric spinning, Hangzhou spinning, silk spinning, nylon spinning, and fuchun spinning.

Applications: shirts, skirts, jackets, down jackets, ski shirts, umbrellas, lampshades, colorful flags, etc.

2. Silk Spinning

Introduction: Among silk fabrics, silk fabrics with no other characteristics are all silk fabrics. 

They have the most types and are widely used in materials. They are mostly woven with plain, twill, and modified weave. 

The texture is lighter, thinner, and more rigid than satin and brocade, and the surface is fine, clean, smooth, and soft. Looks and feels crisp and has a soft sheen, but it is easily creased and challenging to recover. It is a thin silk fabric with a fine texture.

The main varieties are taffeta, brocade silk, and double palace silk.

In addition to mulberry silk, the raw materials of silk fabrics include tussah silk, bimong silk, polyester, and other chemical fiber filaments. Chemical fiber filaments. In addition, cotton yarn, linen yarn, wool yarn, and different short-fiber yarns are often used in silk fabrics to weave with mulberry silk.