Silk

Everything is flammable -- the differences are the temperatures at which the element burst into flame. According to Silk Fast Facts, "Pure Silk's flash point is between 300 degrees and 460 degrees. . . "

A domesticated silkworm produces a single cocoon in its life cycle, which when unraveled can produce up to 3,000 meters of one strand of silk fibre.

it is produced by using the liquid in a silk worms mouth.

Protein fibres such as silk and wool prefer ACID DYES. Acid dyes produce bright colours which vary in light fastness. Most have poor fastness to washing. They are simple to use. These dyes require boiling, which will affect the filament, and alter the final appearance and feel. This change is often acceptable to textile artists and is a matter of personal preference. FIBRE REACTIVE DYES. Brand names include Remazol (Multifilla), Procion, Drimarine K, Levafix (USA) & Dylon. These dyes have excellent light and wash fastness, are easily mixable to form a wide range of colours and can be used in cold water. These dyes depend on a chemical reaction taking place, under alkaline conditions, in an aqueous solution, making a permanent bond with the fibres called co-valent bonding. The alkali is the fixing agent. These alkaline conditions will damage protein fibres, so this should be a consideration when vat dyeing silk. The alkali should be greatly reduced or replaced with acetic acid (sometimes called a painting solution ) Gaubers salt can be substituted for common salt. These problems do not occur when hand painting with fibre reactive dyes, the dye powder is mixed with water to required strength and painted on. Fixing is done by steaming or the application of a cold fix agent (Sodium Silicate )

The Sodium Silicate is painted onto the dried hand painted fabric. The fabric is wrapped completely in plastic to exclude air, left for a min of 2 hrs (overnight is preferable) and washed thoroughly afterwards. With this method there is no loss of colour. Dyes made up without additives will remain usable for many weeks kept in a dark place.

Keep it soaked in water for about an hour. Then let it dry and when it's dried iron it.

The silk route are a example of vibrant pre- modern trade and cultural link between distant parts of the world. 'The name silk routes' points to the importance of west- bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route.

Silk garments/clothes drape around perfectly and it keeps the body warm. The texture of a silk fabric is smooth and is like our skin. Silk garments give us a luxurious feeling when worn so it is quite popular.

Well you can make anything, well not everything, but you know... But still, you should remember that silk isn't as warm as wool r cotton.. so

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Hawaii used to be isolated from other cultures and was exclusively Polynesian. As people's ability to travel increased, people from many different areas, such as the US and Japan, moved to Hawaii. The newcomers had a strong influence on the local culture, and eventually Hawaii became more multicultural.

The word originates in Asia. The Manchurian word is 'sirghe' and the Mongolian word is 'Sirkek' The word passed into Greek as 'serikos' via an oriental people from whom the Greeks obtained silk and smuggled the silk worms from China in the 1st century

The word silk originates from Ol' Spain.

The Silk Road is a historically important international trade route between China and the Mediterranean. Because China silk comprised a large proportion of the trade along this ancient road, in 1877, it was named the 'Silk Road' by Ferdinand von Richthofen, an eminent German geographer

Probably everyone who got the chance. Silk was extremely expensive in those days, even silk thread went at enormous prices. It's the reason why traders always travelled in big groups for mutual protection and even then often took armed guards along.

The Silk Road by the way wasn't a real single road. It was the collective name for the various east-west trajectories that were commonly taken by silk, spices and other traders between China and India and Europe.

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Commercial silk is typically harvested from the silk moth. Yup, that's about it. In ancient China silk was harvested from the tiny cocoons of the silk moth by dropping them into a pot of boiling water.

Here's a clue...

I know that the Chinese formed silk worms which formed our silk, but I forgot which cradle it was.

No one made silk and silk came from silkworms which was discovered accidentally by on emperess in the Western Han Dynasty.

the silk impacted china because silk was use for trade..

I believe the story is that the emperess of china was sitting under a tree drinking tea and a silkworm fell into her tea and it's body melting created silk and that is how silk was discovered and the Chinese discovered it

Silk was - and still is - a very expensive material; controlling knowledge the process by which silk cloth is made allows you to be the only producer of silk and name your own price. Once it becomes common knowledge, anyone can make it and under-cut your price.

Silk was important because it was worth lots of money from Asia.

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are diamonds valuable, of course silk i valuable real silk cost at least $40 per spool. original silk, is hand woven, and extremely hard to find