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wild silk

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wild silk
n
1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) silk produced by wild silkworms
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a fabric made from this, or from short fibres of silk designed to imitate it
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Tussah silk or wild silk is coarser with more impurities than Mulberry silk.
10 Reasons Why Silk Duvets Are so Special by Phillippa Barraclough / Women's issues/gender studies community
Many people do not know that there is another kind of silk that has not been as famous as the classic silk, this is the wild silk that is naturally lesser in production as in popularity in the world because of the simple fact that it can not be produced in mass like the regular silk.
About Silk by Daniel Roshard / Hobbies community
Peigler, in his article on Malagasy raw silk, demonstrates that one particular silk cloth is itself a blend of mulberry silk (landikely) and wild silk (landibe), a conclusion he draws from stunningly detailed photographs he took using a scanned electronic microscope (SEM).
Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar by Aronson, Lisa / African Arts
 
 
 
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