WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SILK?
The main difference is the material.
Natural silk generally refers to mulberry silk spit out by silkworms. Mulberry silk is a natural animal protein fiber and is the main raw material for silk weaving. Smooth and soft, full of luster, with the feeling of warm in winter and cool in summer, the unique "silk singing" phenomenon from friction, with good extensibility, good heat resistance.
Imitation silk is polyester fiber filament by special technology and special finishing, it has the appearance, luster, feel and other effects similar to real silk. Imitation silk is a fiber filament after alkali reduction processing, so that the fiber is thinner and more flexible, to achieve the effect of real silk.
In simple terms, real silk is natural, imitation silk is artificial.
HOW TO DISTINGUISH NATURAL SILK FROM ARTIFICIAL SILK
Test:
1. Take a piece of natural silk fabric and another piece of artificial silk fabric.
2. Burn both the fabrics separately and observe the smell produced.
Conclusion:
1. The fabric which burns giving a smell of burning hair will be natural silk or pure silk. After they burn down, you should get a bunch of ashes, which are easily scattered.
2. The fabric which burns giving a smell of burning paper will be artificial silk. Also, if there’s black smoke coming from the fire and the fabric are still smoldering after you put them out, then it’s artificial silk for sure.
ARTIFICIAL SILK VS. NATURAL SILK, WHICH IS BETTER?
Artificial silk is inferior to real silk in air permeability and feel respect, but the catharsis requirement of real silk is higher, easy shrink fade, the price also is much more expensive than artificial silk, both have its advantage and disadvantage, how to choose the demand that sees oneself, oneself measure.
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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF NATURAL SILK
Advantages:
Real silk fabrics is pure mulberry silk fabrics, with good heat insulation performance, fiber porous structure makes the real silk fabric heat preservation is wonderful, can absorb the moisture in the air or water supply, under normal temperature, can effectively maintain the skin moisture content, appropriate will not make the skin too dry, when used in summer and inhibit the body heat quickly, let a person feel very cool; Silk fabric is composed of protein fiber, and has good biocompatibility with human body. Silk fabric is the lowest friction coefficient of all types of fiber on human body. When skin and silk fabric contact, you can feel unique comfort; Silk fabric also has health care function, ultraviolet radiation is very harmful to human skin, silk protein tryptophan, tyrosine in silk fabric can effectively absorb ultraviolet.
Disadvantages: not easy to maintain, specifically reflected in the following aspects
1. Washing: Silk clothing is made of protein delicate health fiber, washing should not be rubbed in rough items and washed by the washing machine, the clothing should be immersed in cold water for 5-10 minutes, with special silk detergent synthetic low foam detergent or neutral soap gently rub gently, painted silk clothing in clean water repeatedly rinsing.
2. Air drying: After washing, silk clothes should not be exposed to the sun, not to use the dryer hot drying, generally should be placed in a cool and ventilated place to dry. Because the ultraviolet ray in the sun easy to make silk fabric yellowing, fading, aging. Therefore, it is not appropriate to twist and twist silk clothes to remove water after washing. They should be gently shaken out and then spread out to dry until 70% dry before ironing or shaking out.
3. Ironing: the crease resistance of real silk dress is slightly worse than that of chemical fiber, so it is said that "no crease is not real silk". After washing clothes, such as wrinkling, need ironing just crisp, elegant, beautiful. When ironing, air the clothes to 70% dry and then spray water evenly, wait 3-5 minutes and then ironing, ironing temperature should be controlled below 150°C. Iron unfavorable press contact silks face directly, lest produce aurora.
4. Preservation: Preservation of silk clothing, thin underwear, shirts, pants, skirts, pajamas, etc., should be washed and ironed dry before collection. The inconvenient to unpick and wash the autumn and winter clothing, jacket, cheongsam should be cleaned with dry cleaning, ironing until, in order to prevent mildew, out of decay. After ironing, can also play the role of sterilization. At the same time, the storage of clothing boxes, cabinets to keep clean, as far as possible sealed, to prevent dust pollution.
5. Because belongs to natural fiber fabrics such as silk, is made from silkworm spins a cocoon, so the cost of raw materials will be a lot higher than chemical fiber, plus artificial and equipment costs, the price of real silk fabrics is rising, not everyone is able to consume, so the market developed a can be replaced is emulation silk fabric.
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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ARTIFICIAL SILK
We have already introduced above, emulation silk is that it has the advantages of general external from real silk, some people who do not know, even the emulation silk as real silk, is because they don't see what respectively on appearance, the most advantages of emulation silk associated with the raw materials, made of polyester spun silk performance in strength and has good resistance to wear, But it also has disadvantages, that is, it has the real essence that can't be done outside. It is quite different from real silk in breathability and comfort
Although imitation silk is the product that passes artificial processing, but it is without harm to human body, on the contrary, because the price of imitation silk is cheaper than real silk, quality of a material is very frivolous also, more and more get popular welcome, became one of the fabrics that people like.
