At 17:16 14/12/2007, you wrote:
Dupioni is the lighter weight fabric, as it is a thin
even weave with the same or similar warp and weft
threads. Shantung ends up heavier, as it has weft
filler threads that thicken the fabric, giving it a
pronounced rib effect. It has fewer slubs because they
use a finer silk in the warp, but use thick and thin
dual threads similar to the dupioni as the rib weft.
Some places consider them the same fabric type, but
they really are not. Dupioni is more like a slubby
taffeta in weight and weave, and in stiffness.
Shantung ... I can't say what it is similar to, but
not really similar to dupioni except for the
occasional slub roughness.
Both fabrics do have issues with raveling a lot while
working with them.
This may well be so in the U.S. but, like Bjarne, I have always
understood shantung to be the finer fabric. In England, most dupion
is not stiff like taffeta, but more inclined to be floppy. Shantung
is a fabric used for shirts, blouses etc., like a finer dupion. They
do both ravel like mad though.
Like I say, that is what I understand to be the U.K. comparisons.
Suzi
Kimiko
--- Zuzana Kraemerova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks very much!!
>
> If I understood right, shantung is 29mm and
> douppioni 19mm, which means that shantung is much
> heavier? This makes me a bit confused as from the
> definitions I understood that Shantung might be the
> finer (less slubs) = and lighter one?
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