Varieties of silk fabrics

Silk fabrics are divided into 15 categories according to the fabric structure, warp and weft combination, processing technology and silk varieties that express the shape of the silk surface. Among them, except for yarn, Luo, and velvet, regardless of flower and terrestrial organization, other categories are based on terrestrial organization. Each type of silk surface can have the performance of plain (training, bleaching, dyeing) or flower (weaving, printing).

Fifteen categories

1. Spinning: The plain weave is applied, and the raw weaving or half-dyed weaving process is adopted. Generally, the warp and weft are not twisted or weakly twisted. The silk surface is relatively flat and firm.

2. Crepe: Use plain weave or other weave, warp or weft reinforced twist, or warp and weft both reinforced twist, showing obvious crepe and elastic fabric.

3. Satin: The application of satin weave, the silk surface is smooth and bright fabric.

4. Aya: Fabrics with twill weave or modified twill weave, with obvious oblique lines on the silk surface.

5. Yarn: The whole or part of the yarn is applied to the fabric, which is twisted by every other weft of warp A and B.

6. Luo: The whole or part of the fabric with Luo weave is twisted by every other or three odd-numbered wefts of A and B warps, which is called Luo.

7. Fleece: All fabrics are made of pile weave, and the silk surface is pile or loop.

8. Brocade: It is a yarn-dyed jacquard fabric with delicate and colorful patterns using satin and twill weave.

9. Silk: Light and thin open-hole fabrics with plain weave or yarn-received weave.

10. What: the use of various tissues and thicker warp and weft threads, rich in texture and wool-like fabrics.

11. Ge: plain weave, twill weave and its changing weave, with sparse warp and weft, fine warp and weft, thick texture, and the silk surface is a fabric with horizontal fuzz.

12. Tape: Plain weave, filament as warp, cotton or other yarn as weft, thicker fabric.

13. Silk: applied to plain weave, fine, flat and crisp fabrics.

14. Silk: fabrics with plain weave or changing weave, closely interlaced in warp and weft.

15. 缂 (carved): plain weave or other special silk fabrics made by the method of warp and break (return) weft.