HOW TO TELL REAL SILK FROM SYNTHETIC
Spot Real Silk — Avoid Regretful Buys
MANY FABRICS MIMIC SILK’S LOOK. LEARN SIMPLE, SAFE AND RELIABLE WAYS TO TELL GENUINE SILK APART FROM SYNTHETICS SO YOU CAN BUY WITH CONFIDENCE.
Why It Matters
Only 100% authentic mulberry silk reliably delivers the skin, hair and sleep benefits consumers expect. Knowing how to identify real silk protects both your wellbeing and your investment.
PRICE
No doubt about it – genuine, high-quality silk will always be relatively expensive. Synthetic fibres like polyester can be made to look like real silk to the untrained eye. Although synthetic fabrics can be deliberately priced high, low prices usually indicate the fabric is not genuine silk. Real silk usually costs at least ten times as much as synthetics to produce.
LUSTRE
Authentic mulberry silk is renowned for its lustre. It is a result of the combination of threads of different single colours in each of the weft and warp. This “shot” effect gives a surface that “shines” and appears to change colour as the angle of light on it changes.
Synthetic fabrics shine white, no matter what the angle of the light.
RUB THE SILK
This is a very quick test and requires some information about the traits of real silk to spot it in the first place. Rub the silk with your hands and if it’s a real one then you will feel warmth on your hands after rubbing it. If you do not feel any warmth then it is artificial.
The Ultimate Test
BURNING THE SILK
If after burning it smells like a burning hair and the ashes are brittle then it means that the silk is made from silk worm cocoon.
Authentic mulberry silk
There is smell of burning hair and the flame is invisible when burning the edge of the real silk fabrie.As soon as the flame is taken away,the fabric will stop burning.
The ash from burning is black, crispy and turns to powder easily when twisted in fingers.
Artificial silk
When burned, there rises a flame, smells plastic, and goes rapidly.
No ash is resulted from burning.
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