A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
A plain, shiny fabric similar to silk in appearance. It is a fairly difficult fabric to work with as it frays very easily once cut Face fix A term usually relating to the installation of a curtain track fitting or the positioning of a blind fixing. The fixing is screwed into the face of the wall above the window recess or into the front of the window frame itself if the window dressing is to be inset into the window recess
Real or artificial silk with a slubbed, or textured, surface. Real silk dupion is generally imported from India; it is a lightweight fabric which, like other silks, tends to fade and rot. Artificial dupion is made of acetate and viscose.
Textured silk, real or synthetic.
Dupion silk is a irregular, bumpy or nubby silk yarn which usually quite coarse produced from double cocoons. Often inferior quality cocoons are combined with the silk from the double cocoons in the reeling process. Used in weaving shantung, nankeen and pongee cloths.
The cloth was originally made from silk obtained from double cocoons, which gave an irregular yarn. This yarn gives the cloth its characteristic slubby texture. Manufactured fibres are now used with such effects.
A plain weave silk that is known for its irregularity and untwisted fibers that are spread out at intervals throughout the fabric.