วันพุธที่ 26 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2555

Thai Silk Weaving Methods

First step : Degumming : This process begins with cleaning raw silk which will be used as a warp and weft in order to take away all those dirt and sericin. This cleaning process includes the boiling in hot boiling water mixing with sodium carbonate, it can help to increase the softness and shine to the silk, enhancing the quality color after dyeing.



Second step : Bleaching : Local Thai silk fabric is naturally yellow, so we need to make it lighter by bleaching. We don’t need to do bleaching for those silk yarn or hybrid which is already white unless we want to make it real white. We use Hydrogen peroxide for this method.


Third step : Dyeing: This process starts with taking those bleached fabrics to dye. Then, we may take those to rise in hot boiling and very cold water until they are clean. Prior to further step, we must expose the fabrics to the sun until they get dry. 





Final step : Weaving : Traditional hand operated looms, as a local ancestor method, involve in this step. How it works that is to prepare 1 set of weft and 1 set of warp and put a warp yarn in between a weft yarn. This weft yarn is separated by a harness while a reed is a tool to tighten weft and warp yarn together as a whole piece of silk.



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