How can mulberry silk be distinguished?
Generally speaking, the fibrous material with porous structure has certain advantages in moisture absorption, ventilation, fluffy and warmth retention. Because silk is too soft, slender, made the quilt after long time use, easily broken silk.
Another point, because silkworm is by artificial breeding, take up manpower and material resources more, and tussah is wild stocking, so in terms of price, also is tussah silk more cheap and fine.
The tussah silk elongation to Bussang silk, corrosion resistance, light resistance, moisture absorption and so on are good Bussang silk. But it doesn't mean mulberry silk is bad. Tussah silk should be the first choice if it is said to be silk. If you choose clothes, mulberry silk should be good.
The two silk makers are each one has his good points of natural protein fiber. By scouring, affect the feel of sericin and impurities can mostly be removed, displayed silk gloss elegance, softness, smoothness etc.. But just say the silk quilt, should say is Bussang tussah silk was a little better. There are many pores in the cross section of tussah silk fiber, which is porous structure. The mulberry silk is compact structure with no fine pores.
