Comforter Down : Silk Comforter

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Comforter Down : Silk Comforter

Silk comforters is a great gift idea, men and especially women love the comfy feeling of silk against their skin and you will rarely go wrong if you purchase a silk comforter for someone as a gift.

A silk comforter are also a great way to make any bedroom beautiful. Whether you’re looking for luxurious silk sheets or that new silk comforter, silk bedding proves that you’ve got great taste! It can be a lot of fun to buy quality bed linens like silk that will make your room shine with style.

Several different types and styles of silk are used in the making of silk sheets, pillowcases, comforters and other silk bedding products- including:

Niel silk, jacquard silk, Habotai silk, Charmeuse silk, Fuji silk

Silk is breathable, lightweight, very supple, and constantly equalizes temperature and silk comforters conform to the contours of your body.

Each type of silk has its own special characteristics in regard to the texture of silk and its use in bed sheets, pillowcases, comforters and duvet covers, as well as other silk bedding products currently on the market.

Surrounding yourself in bedding luxury shouldn’t have to be unduly expensive either. While it’s true that in the past, only the wealthy noble and ruling classes could even think about bedding made of silk, now it’s available to almost everyone.

The truth is that everyone loves to be in a bedroom that offers a warm, comfortable, and appealing atmosphere. If you’re looking to change your bedroom’s decor, silk bed linens aren’t just pleasant to sleep on, they make your bedroom look luxurious and dramatic.

Silk Comforter – how is a made ?

Silk bedding was first invented in China, but is now emerging as one of the more popular luxury household items. Silk bedding includes sheets, pillow cases, duvet covers and silk comforters. The silk sheeting material is primarily charmeuse or habotai. Silk comforters are covered with charmeuse, habotai, or cotton, and they are filled with silk floss.

Silk floss comes in different types, including mulberry, where the silk worms are fed a diet of pure mulberry leaves, and tussah silk floss that comes from silk worms that eat from the wild. Silk floss looks similar to a cotton ball that has been stretched out and flattened, but the individual fibers are very long. The extremely long fiber length is the main quality that makes silk fabric so smooth.

Making a Silk Comforter

Silk fiber is reeled if it is to be used to make silk fabric, but it is layered and stretch to make the silk floss batting used as insulation in a silk comforter. The process begins by opening the silk cocoon and turning the worm out. Then the silk is soaked and washed with water and then stretched over a u-shaped bamboo bracket that holds the silk layer until it has dried.

Next the silk layers are taken off the bracket and several people pull the edges out to stretch the cocoon into 1 thin layer measuring about 6′ x 6′. Many cocoons are stretched and layered, 1 on top of the other to form a silk batting layer. This silk batting is then quilted into a silk comforter using either a silk fabric or cotton fabric cover.

Silk Production

The production of cultivated silk is known as sericulture. There are several stages of production that begin with the silk moth laying its eggs. After hatching, the caterpillars begin feeding on mulberry leaves, increasing in size 10,000 times by their 35th day of life, at which time they are ready to spin silk cocoons.

The silk worm produces the silk in a pair of glands in its head, and then forced out as a liquid through small openings called spinnerets. The silk liquid turns into fiber as soon as it comes into contact with the air. A typical silk worm can produce about 1 mile of silk in 2-3 days, encasing itself in a cocoon.

After a silk worm transforms into a moth, it secretes a liquid onto the silk threads to dissolve them, so it can emerge. But in the production of pure mulberry silk, most of the worms are killed with heat before they change. A few are allowed to survive for continued breeding.

Wild silk is harvested from cocoons found in the wild. After feeding on a diet of wild mulberry and whatever else a silk worm chooses to eat, the wild silk is a darker color. Wild silk is known as Tussah and is a bit coarser in texture than mulberry silk. Duppioni is another type of wild silk and is produced when two silkworms spin cocoons that are joined together.

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