Dear Friends,
when I was at Varanasi last month I got to see the people weaving the
magnificent silk fabrics - all by the old pre-computer method - and
managed to get the elderly Muslim man who ran their outlet to find me
some of the fine silk thread.
I bought a large skene of it and it's about the thickness of hair,
but he explained to me that this is in the raw state, and that if I
boiled it with pure soap it would become really white, soft and
glossy. I'm fairly sure he was saying pure soap (like Lux or Velvet).
But does anyone here know the actual method/recipe.
Many thanks
David in Ballarat, AUS
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