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My Favourite Outfit

My Favourite Outfit. By Miss Wright. My Dress. Special occasion outfit ~ events like weddings. Last worn to a wedding Bought from an online store Features: Adjustable straps Elastic back Grey and black printed silk skirt Black cotton top. SILK. The main fabric of this dress is silk.

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My Favourite Outfit

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  1. My Favourite Outfit By Miss Wright

  2. My Dress • Special occasion outfit ~ events like weddings. • Last worn to a wedding • Bought from an online store • Features: • Adjustable straps • Elastic back • Grey and black printed silk skirt • Black cotton top

  3. SILK The main fabric of this dress is silk. Facts about silk: • Silk is a natural product made from the cocoon of the silkworm • It is very expensive as silk worms are quite small, so the amount of silk they produce is quite small • Silk is a very smooth, delicate fabric.

  4. The History of Silk • Silk worms have been bred in China for more than 4000 years! • The idea of making a cloth from the filaments of the silkworm’s cocoon originated in China in about 2600 BC! Sogdian silk, Made in the 8th century

  5. Life Cycle of a Silk Worm

  6. How is silk made? Commercial silk priduction is know as sericulture. In the wild, when the silk moth hatches from its silk cocoon, it breaks the fibres of the cocoon meaning the silk cannot be spun. In the commercial silk inducstry, the silk worms are killed before they hatch. A silk worm

  7. Spinning Silk • Silk is a continuous fibre, so spinning is different from other natural fibres like cotton and wool. • Raw silk is subjected to throwing. • Throwing is when two or three threads of raw silk are twisted together to produced yarn. • The yarn is woven into the fabric silk.

  8. Types of Silk • Raw Silk • Dupion Silk • Tussah Silk • Spun Silk

  9. References Used Life Cycle of a Silk Worm http://www.suekayton.com/Silkworms/lifecycle.htm 5th May, 2010 Fibres to Fabric Hazel Kings Materials Photocopied book. History of Silk (website) http://www.silk-road.com/artl/silkhistory.shtml 5th May, 2010

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