Posts Tagged ‘silk’

October 19th, 2009
Yarntasting Guide: Multistranding
by
artfibers team

Multistranding combines two or more strands in each stitch, as you create a knit or crocheted fabric.  The technique is also called carrying along, since the multiple strands are held together and worked as one.  You can think of the resulting fabric as a kind of tweed, but much less regular in pattern than the [...]

August 28th, 2009
silk, a miracle of nature
by
nyle

Chemists think of silk as a liquid crystal protein. In its natural form it is two proteins. A core filament forms the fiber that we know. It is encased in a very thin layer called sericin, also a protein. More about sericin later. Everyone has heard of the silkworm. In fact it is an immature [...]