Our silk fabrics have a lusciously lavish feel to them and would add opulence to any room. Silk has a natural regal awe to it that it emulates into a room. Our silk satins are only suitable for curtains and roman blinds. If it was used for upholstery it would wear thin very quickly and would most likely snag on the furniture.
Silk's beautiful appearance and drape makes it suitable for wall coverings, curtains, blinds, rugs, bedding and wall hangings, but only the silk of moth caterpillars is suitable. Some lighter silks are regularly used for quality clothing. Silk is a natural protein fibre that can be woven into textiles. It is obtained from the cocoon of the silkworm larva, in the process known as sericulture, which kills the larvae. The shimmering appearance for which it is recognized is from the fibres triangular prism-like structure, which allows silk cloth to refract incoming light at different angles.
A variety of wild silks, produced by caterpillars other than the mulberry silkworm (latin name Bombyx mori) and several other insects have been known and used in China, South Asia, and Europe since ancient times. But is a very small proportion compared to the cultivated silk.
We offer a Made To Measure service on our silk curtain fabrics. If you would like to know more about our Made To Measure curtains please contact us or look at our made to measure curtains.
We always recommend that you dry clean our silk curtain fabric at a specialist silk dry cleaners.
All our silk fabrics are available both online and in store from our fabric warehouse in Northamptonshire.