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Post by Frances on Jan 16, 2015 23:35:30 GMT
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Post by luvswool and dyestuff on Jan 17, 2015 1:39:08 GMT
they are all luscious looking…debating…neutrals, blends or go for the primaries and do a fiber color wheel? so many choices! And it’s hard to resist a sale.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 13:45:40 GMT
That fiber is gorgeous Frances.
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Post by zed on Jan 18, 2015 13:46:27 GMT
I have to say it though, it's incredibly expensive.
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Post by Teri Berry on Jan 18, 2015 19:01:04 GMT
You are right Zed, this is about £7.50 for just over 100g, and that's before postage!! For a merino and Tussah silk blend that is extortionate, I would think twice before paying that for a mulberry blend but to my mind Tussah silk is the poor cousin.... World of wool have similar blends for 2/3 of the price (and finer merino too), they also have a mulberry/merino blend too. For anyone looking at these "roughly" blended mixes you can get a very similar effect by taking 2 or more narrow lengths of top, holding them together and pulling your "shingles" from these groups of fibre. Time to play!
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Post by zed on Jan 19, 2015 12:32:27 GMT
Yeah, I think you can get 100g each of Merino, tussah silk and flax from WoW for the same price. I supposse looking on the bright side, at those prices, you'd soon qualify for the free postage if you spend over $100 I'm gonna stick up for tussah since it is a more animal friendly silk, and say it is the subtler cousin of the brash, showy mulberry
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Post by Teri Berry on Jan 20, 2015 23:51:08 GMT
I'm curious (and showing my ignorance), why is tussah silk more animal friendly?
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 21, 2015 0:12:29 GMT
ok I will bite how is tussah more animal friendly? I like it just fine but bleached or mulberry is better to get true colour when dying.
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Post by angie on Jan 21, 2015 1:40:56 GMT
I believe that Tussah is more friendly as the worms eat whatever they can find as the silk that is cultivated is found in the wild and most of the time the moths have hatched from the cocoons. Mulberry silk worms are raised and fed mulberry leaves and the silk is harvested from cocoons that are boiled with the worm still inside the cocoon.
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Post by luvswool and dyestuff on Jan 21, 2015 3:59:13 GMT
Eeeeww! Thanks for the explanation, Angie!
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Post by Pandagirl on Jan 21, 2015 4:25:31 GMT
I don't know about worms being boiled, but mulberry is cultivated and tussah is wild and is considered less desirable.
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Post by zed on Jan 21, 2015 10:49:44 GMT
Yeah, that's pretty much it. I still don't understand why tussah is less desirable though, maybe it's the cultivated-ness of it but Mulberry looks like bamboo or even nylon, tussah has a warm soft tone like a raw silvery-honey metal.
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 21, 2015 13:58:46 GMT
I think its the colour mostly. it changes depending on what they eat and with it being coloured it effects the dying. I don't know about the hatching thing. I know it can't be reeled if they hatch because the thread is broken. You would think you would see wild silk hankies but W.O.W. only has mulberry hankies and caps
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Post by angie on Jan 21, 2015 14:47:31 GMT
When I was researching the differences between the two silk names, I ran across a site in Oregon where a woman raises silk moths and lets them hatch naturally from the cocoons. I can try to find the site again if anyone is interested.
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Post by Pandagirl on Jan 21, 2015 16:28:45 GMT
Angie we always like to learn new things if it's not too much trouble.
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