2022年9月19日星期一

How much do you know about heavy silk crepe fabric?

 

Silk Heavy Crepe Fabric

When talking about silk crepe de chine, people think that is a lightweight fabric made by twisting some fibers clockwise and others counterclockwise. The twisted fibers are then woven in a plain-weave fabric, but it's the twisted fibers, not the weave, that gives crepe its distinctive "pebbly" look and feel rather than a shiny luster. Both sides of the fabric look and feel the same.

Heavy silk crepe de chine


Crepe de chine is very popular because of its many characteristics, good quality and wide range of uses. Crepe de chine is suitable for summer clothes such as shirts and skirts.

silk crepe fabric 40mm


But today I want to introduce the heavy silk crepe fabric.

It is a kind of thick and heavy silk with a combination of multiple warp and weft threads and a reinforced twist of the weft threads.

Heavy silk crepe fabric is much more suitable for wedding gowns and evening wears!

Wedding gown silk fabric


Heavy silk crepe is much heavier than regular silk crepe de chine, judging by the name!

Heavy silk crepe fabric refers to a silk fabric with high momme. The characteristics of heavy silk crepe are fine and even wrinkles on the surface, soft texture, smooth, bright and beautiful color, good elastic, comfortable, breathable, cool, good drape. It does not shrink after water washing. Its maintenance is easy.

100 silk crepe fabric


The quality of heavy silk crepe fabric is indeed higher than that of ordinary silk fabrics, especially heavy silk crepe is not easy scratched. It is incomparable with other silk fabrics on this specification and character!

For more information, please send us email to know more, lynn@predatextile.com  or clink our website for more details, www.predatextile.com

2020年9月27日星期日

What is sandwashed silk fabric and what different there are with regular silk fabrics?


What is sandwashed silk fabric and what different there are with regular silk fabrics?



To be strictly speaking, sand washing process of silks should belong to a kind of water washing process. It refers to washing the fabric with alkaline water, and the silk fabric is corroded by alkali, which erodes the silk fiber slightly, making the surface of silk fiber uneven and hairy.



The sand-washed silk fabric looks like a layer of white wool or gray on the surface, which makes the fabric feel “Vintage”. It is precisely because of the slight erosion of alkali that the originally hard silk fiber structure becomes softer, thus the whole fabric becomes softer as a whole.


So in general there are following “difference” or “advantage” over regular silks,
1. A lot softer in hand feel.
2. Better drape.
3. Mechanical stretch on both warp and weft side of silk fabric.
4. Hairy surface, which leads to more vintage feel.
5. It is require that silk fabric that is thicker than 20mm can be done sandwashing appropriately.


Since different customers and sellers have different standards for the degree of sand washing, if a customer requests to buy sandwashed silk fabric, Preda Silk would always send samples for approval so as customer can feel the difference themselves.


For more information, please kindly check our website for more www.predatextile.com
Contacts: Lynn@predatextile.com or Jasom@predatextile.com +86-18298258162(WhatsApp)