Sisters-Silk

Silk Fabric

The fabric made in silk is called silk in general, but the silk can be made into different kinds of fabric depends on different processing, such as Silk Charmeuse,Silk Sang Satin, Jacquard Silk Satin, Silk Knitting,Silk Crepe, Crepe georgtte,Silk Voile, and so on. 

• Silk Charmeuse: satin fabric made of unboiled mulberry raw silk. With at least five tricot & weft lines in each dense and solid stitch,  shiny and smooth in surface, and dull and crepe underside, silk charmeuse is the major category of silk products using the most sophisticated technologies and highest level of process, with the most luxury appearance and extremely soft hand feel. 
•  Habutai: silk fabric made of unboiled mulberry raw silk in plain stitches, which are the simplest fabric stitches inter-woven by tricot & weft lines. This kind of fabric is solid and straight in texture but insufficient in softness and without luster. Habutai is usually sand washed to improve its softness. Silk charmeuse is of higher value than habutai of the same momme weight (m/m).
•  Sand washing: refer to the process where boiled silk is put into alkaline solution of auxiliary agent (containing swelling agent and softener, etc.) and is made into a silk product by applying mechanic friction and water flow impact. Sand washed silk has fine and dense floss on the fabric surface, resulting in very soft and smooth hand feel, thick and spongy fullness, high elastic resilience, strong vivacity of the fabric rib, and other remarkable features. The true reason behind the improved softness is that the fall of the fabric has been boosted after sand washing.

How To Take Care Of Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, in the silk fiber there are 18 amino acids are the same as the human’s skin, this is why when sleeping on it, people can feel very comfortable, cool, satisfied, calm, and can get a good sleep. Now more and more people are trying to use silk bedding, and once they tried on it, they will not come back to the cotton or other fiber bedding. They will have it for life time.

The biggest concern for the new consumers to buy and use the silk bedding is the washing, as a professional silk bedding producer, Hangzhou Ailisilk Co., Ltd. has done a lot to make sure the washing of our silk bedding is an easy thing, please follow up the following washing instructions, and then you will find the silk is actually a strong fiber, you can use it for a long time:

1.    Shrinkage:

We have tried many ways to reduce the shrinkage of our silk fabrics, before cutting we checked the shrinkage. The maximum shrinkage of our products are 3%, in this way, when our consumers water wash the silk bedding, it will not mis-shape. So please just water wash it either by hand or by machines.

2.    Color fastness.

All of the dyestuff we used are imported from the EU dyestuff suppliers, they provided good quality and environment friendly dyestuff, with careful handling, all of the fibers and fabrics are dyed properly, the color fastness is very good, please do not worry about color comes off. But still suggest to wash the similar color products together.

3.    Crinkle issues.

Silk is surrounded by the silk sericin, the inside of the silk is silk filament. Silk sericin is the major reason why the silk is very easy to get crinkled. Traditionally people thought there are 24 % silk sericin and 76% silk filament, but actually the experts discovered inside the 76% silk filament there are still 11% silk sericin, which is very difficult to remove. But we did remove the 24% outside silk sericin and 11% inside silk sericin. This is why our silk beddings can still keep a good shining, and less crinkle after washing.

4.    Protein fiber.

The protein fiber is like our skin, it can not afford hot water and strong alkali. These are the major characters of the silk, and consumers should pay very clear attention to this point. So when water wash the silk bedding, please do not use water with more than 40 degrees, please do not use alkali to wash or to bleach, the alkali can melt the silk, not only hurt their strength. When it is really necessary to wash it with alkali to remove special dirt’s, consumers can still do it, but after applied alkali, please wash it with water for several more times, to make sure there is not remains of alkali stayed on the silk, we suggest to use acid stuff, such as vinegar to wash and balance the alkali.

5.    tumble dry.

It is O.K. to tumble dry the silk bedding in your machine, but still use low temperature, when it is 80% dry, please take it out and iron it.

6.    Ironing:

You can iron it with 150 to 200 degrees but please do not stay your hot iron on the silk for more than 5 seconds, always move the iron, so the silk will not be hurt. Please move the iron along the warp direction if you can distinguish which side is the warp. This will increase the shining effect of the silk.

7.    About dry clean:

We suggest our consumers try to avoid the dry clean, for several reasons: it is expensive and not convenient, it is also not healthy, because the dry clean shop will use chemical to wash the silk, it might hurt the silk and the chemical remains on the silk bedding from their chemical dry cleaning might cause any trouble to the healthy of our consumers.