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Projects for Silk & Silk Fabrics
Hand Painted Evening Wrap
Use Silk Dupioni, Silk Noil, Silk Chiffon, Silk Crepe de Chine, Silk Shantung, or China Silk!
Color
Accents
Pillows from Silk Dupioni,
China Silk or even Silk Scarves
Stenciled Silk
Stencil on Silk Satin, Dupioni Silk, China Silk, Silk Crepe De Chine or Silk Charmeuse
A Shadow Box
Backed with Silk Satin, Dupioni, Crepe De Chine or Charmeuse
Custom-made
Lampshades
Transform the look of a lampshade with Silk Noil, Silk Dupioni, Silk Chiffon,
Silk Crepe de Chine, Silk Shantung, China Silk, or Embroidered Silk!
Handkerchief Ring Pillow
Incorporate something's old, new, borrowed, & blue with a light-blue silk fabric pillow.
Scanned Silk Fabric Pillows
Print with a computer on China Silk
A
Shawl from Silk Satin
or from Silk Noil, Silk Dupioni, Silk Chiffon, Silk Crepe de Chine, Silk Shantung, China Silk, or Embroidered Silk!
Lavender
Pillows
Like the ones made for European aristocracy in the Middle Ages from Silk Noil,Silk Dupioni, Silk Chiffon, Silk Crepe de Chine, Silk Shantung, China Silk, or Embroidered Silk!
Makeover
Room
Use Cream & Brown Silk Satin
The Fabric of Your Life
Pillows from Silk Dupioni,
China Silk or even Silk Scarves
Understanding
Underlining
Sandra Betzina's favorite underlining
fabric is silk organza
Sachets
Use
Tracing Paper and Silk Organza
Elegant
Silk Shower
Curtain
Handpainted pattern on Silk
Noil, Silk Dupioni, Silk Chiffon, Silk Crepe
de Chine, or Silk Shantung!
Lampshade
Shapes
It's worth the effort to find
the perfect shade for every base.
Silk Fabric Window
Panel
Create the look you want with your choice
of stamps and dye colors.
Scrunched
Silk Scarf
Painted China Silk or
Silk Crepe
de Chine,
Silk Charmeuse
or Silk Jacquard
with beaded fringe.
Curtain
Liner
Light up the whole room with a surprise
silk fabric lining!
Batik
Stenciling on Silk Satin
Silk Noil, Silk Dupioni,
Silk Chiffon, Silk Crepe
de Chine, Silk Shantung,
or China Silk.
V-Neck:
V as in "Victory"
by Sandra Betzina
Silk organza is a good interfacing to use with silk.
Try these links for information on silk fabrics, its manufacture, use and care.
Many elaborately embroidered and
painted parlor throws and bed covers of silk velvet,
silk satin, and other fancy silk fabrics
that were so popular in the late Victorian era have been
treasured and preserved. Because a wide variety of silk
fabrics, embroidery yarns, and other decorative materials
were used in making them, their preservation presents
special problems.
www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/vicquilt.htm
...it became clear that there was a niche for their work
-- silk fabrics made into corsets that were both functional as waist-training
tools and interesting enough to don as outer wear.
www.deliciouscorsets.com/start.htm
The Guild exists to bring together painters of
silk fabrics
from around the world and to promote this wonderful art
form to the world at large.
www.silkpainters-guild.co.uk/index2.htm
The Silkroad Foundation wants to provide the bridge for
cultural exchange and appreciation between Eastern and
Western cultures and to facilitate and enhance educational
opportunities.
www.silk-road.com/toc/index.htm
Exclusive designer silk lingerie
with custom lace from France.
http://www.pfieldwalker.com/index.htm
BestThaisilk is a website sell thai silk online we have many products to offer you such as silk fabric, silk brocade, silk scarves, silk flower, silk pillow etc.
http://www.BestThaisilk.com
Mulberrywood specializes in handwoven Thai silk: neckties, pocket squares, scarves and shawls. We weave our silk in Thailand on traditional wooden looms and make our neckties and pocket squares in very limited numbers by hand in our Colorado design studio. Our silks range from traditional iridescent Thai shot silk to exotic mudmee silk. Please visit us at www.mulberrywood.com
The Duke of Windsor always epitomized the high
style of British aristocracy. Relaxed. Elegant. Refined.
There was one fabric he
came to covet above all others: Dupioni
silk.
www.oxxfordclothes.com/dupslk.asp
...Those motifs were then imported onto
silk fabrics that Campbell literally printed out in his office.
www.iastate.edu/news/today/03/jan/vilsack.htm
The development of technology to dissolve
silk fibers and make film from silk protein
has opened the way for research and development into
its use in artificial skin, blood vessels, and tendons;
contact lenses; catheters for surgical procedures; and
anticoagulants.
www.sumitomo.gr.jp/english/discoveries/special/76_04.htm
For thousands of years, silk fabrics
have been considered luxury trade goods par excellence
because they fetch a high price, are relatively easy
to transport and are always in demand among the wealthy.
It is only natural that James I and subsequent English
sovereigns would encourage production of this textile
among the settlers of Virginia.
www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/SilkProd.htm
After the First World War, American women could buy full-fashioned
pure silk 39-gauge
stockings at affordable prices.
http://www.silk-stockings.co.uk/index.php