On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Dawn wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if this fabric I have is really silk. It > doesn't *feel* like silk, so I burned a piece.
Pop a two-inch swatch into bleach for a few hours. Whatever dissolves is either wool or silk. What doesn't, is something else. You can then determine if you've got silk, a blend, etc. and narrow down from there. (E.g. if only the warp threads dissolve, take a bunch of weft threads and burn just those for a clearer test.) --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
