There is a book called "All About Silks" that also
comes with swatches. The definition that Chiara
already gave pretty much sums it up, but the swatches
help.
I've worked with both, and shantung is heavier than
dupioni because of the filling yarns that give a
definite ribbed appearance. It also tends to be
smoother than general dupioni with fewer and finer
slubs.
And dupioni can be found as nearly as smooth as
shantung, or very heavy in the slubs. I know of one
online fabric store that offers both smooth and
slubbed dupioni on different pages (so of course I
can't find my link on this).
hth,
Kimiko
--- Zuzana Kraemerova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've spent the past few days searching on the
> internet and I've been asking as many people as I
> met and still can't get the difference between silk
> shantung and silk dupioni. I often ask my sister in
> China to buy me some shantung, but once she gets a
> very fine fabric with almost no slubs and another
> day she gets one with a rougher texture and more
> visible slubs. I didn't know how to call these two,
> so I started to search for such sorts of silk fabric
> that would match the two fabrics, and I got shantung
> and dupioni. But alas, sources say different
> definitions, one says the contrary of the other,
> leaving me really puzzled...
>
> Does anyone know something about that? Pictures are
> really welcome...
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