At Yasha Silk ,
we sell the finest quality silk on Earth at fair and affordable prices.
We work hard to teach our friends about the benefits of pure silk as well as how to get the best value when buying. But unfortunately, the popularity of silk has attracted far too many unscrupulous merchants to the marketplace. These bad-faith companies exploit that fact by passing off fake or low-quality silk as the real thing.
That’s why Yasha Silk team has put together this page guide to identifying 100% mulberry silk. We’ll show you how to tell silk from polyester by look, feel, smell and 3 simple ways to test even at home.
Polyester fabric will cause black smoke, forming a black lump.
Hot and sticky.
If real silk contacts fire source, open fire will not be seen. The taste of burned hair can be felt after the fire is extinguished immediately.
Real silk will become black particles and it can be crushedinto powder with fingers.
Pour the oxidant disinfectant containing chlorine into a glass, and then soak the ‘silk’ fabric into the disintectant.
Stir the disinfectant slowly.
As you can see, we soak the same size fabric in the same milliliter of disinfectant.
Just waiting…
10-15 minutes later, polyester fabric will not change or dissolve,
real silk fabric will dissolve in the disinfectant.
Momme is a form of weight measurement that is used for silk, pronounced “mom-ee” and abbreviated as “mm”. Silk fabric less than 20mm is considered lightweight, 20 to 28mm is considered medium-weight and anything above that is considered heavyweight.
The formula to calculate the weight per square meter of 100% silk fabric is: Width (in meters) x Weight (in momme) 1 momme = 4.3056 grams /㎡
Example for 16mm 114cm width = 1.14 x 16 x 4.3056 ≈ 78.53g
