Samples of Aurora Silk's entire fabric collection are included in the Fabric Portfolio.
Aurora Silk sells a full selection of natural dyes and mordants.
For ideas on which dyes and which mordants to use, view our Natural Dye colour Chart.
For more detailed dyeing recipes, read Brilliant Colours! by Cheryl Kolander.
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This particular tussah fabric is exceptionally shiny because it is woven from reeled (not spun) tussah, which is very rare. It is surprisingly durable for such a lightweight silk.
I searched for decades for the source for this silk! I knew of it as one of the fabrics used for traditional paintings: think of the Japanese sumi charcoal black water colour on beige ground. The reeled Tussah has a luminosity that exists no where else. - Cheryl
The natural, unwashed fabric is stiff, which gives it uses that no other silk can match. It can be stretched and used as dye-paint canvas. It can be folded into Origami. It can be sewn into lightweight garments or linings that stand out from the body.
This fabric is woven on antique looms in a small mill in India. It is not perfectly regular. Please consider these irregularities as part of the charm of handwork.
Washed, it becomes a soft, but still substantial semi-sheer. The natural light beige is the natural wild silk colour. It can be ironed smooth, or left unironed for a contemporary easy care light crinkle texture. Shrinks considerably when water washed, so order amounts with this in mind.
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1-4 yards
Natural off white (undyed)
5+ yards
Natural off white (undyed)
3" x 3 " Sample
Natural off white (undyed)
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