🌺 Why is the price of silk so high? Why Mulberry Silk is different from other kinds of silk?
👉 That is because the silk production process is complicated and the benefits silk brings to users more than ordinary fabrics.
1️⃣ How are mulberry silk made? Mulberry silk is a fabric that is 100% woven from silk. And Vietnam is one of the countries with a long tradition from caring for newly hatched silkworms, creating silk cocoon, reeling silk cocoon, weaving, and dyeing. The stages are made by hand and require meticulousness and ingenuity of artisans, to get beautiful and perfect silks.
🔸 To produce 1kg of raw silk need to harvest more than 5000 silkworm cocoons.
🔸 To make a good silk cloth weighing about 0.5kg, it takes from 2000 to 3000 cocoons.
🔸 100% natural material, to weave 1m of fabric requires about 500 cocoons. With thicker fabrics, it takes from 2,000 to 2,500 cocoons to produce 1m of silk fabric. More than 3000 cocoons for a traditional costume.
🔸 Growing mulberry - raising silkworm - spinning - weaving silk is a hard job.
🔸 Raw silk yarn production accounts for only 0.2% of world yarn production
So, Silk is the rarest natural fiber in the world.
2️⃣ THE BENEFITS OF MULBERRY SILK:
🔹 Mulberry silk has many distinct benefits compared to other silks such as:
🔹 Hygroscopicity and breathability: the clothing of mulberry silk gives people a dry, smooth, comfortable, and cool feeling, and it is also beneficial to prevent skin diseases such as eczema, skin itching, etc. produce.
🔹 Mulberry silk has natural antibacterial properties and resists retaining moisture and odor. Wearing silk is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Silk is also known to be a comfortable fabric good for the skin.
🔹 Anti-ultraviolet effect: Mulberry silk clothing can prevent ultraviolet rays and avoid direct damage to human skin caused by ultraviolet rays.
🔹 Soft, smooth and shiny surface. Not easy to wrinkle like other fabrics. Light, giving the user a feeling of comfort and ease.
🔹 Breathable and absorbent. Fresh colors, rich textures, and patterns. Brings femininity and tenderness.
Silk products are always loved by foreign tourists and chosen as gifts for relatives when traveling to Vietnam
* CARE INSTRUCTION:
To retain its natural beauty, Vietnam Silk should be:
+ Dry cleaning or Washing by hand with cool (or lukewarm) water and body milk, soap or shampoo (Dissolving before washing- Should wash swiftly)
+ Shaking clear water and hanging in the shadow.
+ Ironing while wet (Should iron on the reverse of the silk)
Thank you.
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