The Queen of Fabrics
Silk earns its reputation as the Queen of Fabrics with wondrous qualities of luxurious, simmering, beauty - and its good for you!
- 100% natural and the most hypoallergenic of all fabrics, due to its natural protein structure. Silk bedding has found to have remarkable benefits for people who suffer from dust mites, mould, and fungus allergies.
- Silk is saturated with essential amino acids. It is said that sleeping on silk pillowcases delays wrinkles and prevents bad-hair days!
- Silk is naturally self-adjusting fabric, it keeps you warm in winter and cool when temperatures are warmer. It can absorb up to 30% of its weight in moisture without feeling damp and it lets the skin breathe.
- Silk fibers have a triangular cross section with rounded corners. This allows light to hit at many different angles, giving a wonderful luminescent quality.
- Besides being delicate and smooth to the touch, it is the strongest natural fiber with unique durability and endurance. Weight for weight silk is stronger than steel. In fact until World War 1 some bulletproof vests were even made from silk.
- Silk is wrinkle and tear resistant, and surprisingly easy to care for - the surface actually resists dirt!
- It is said that the natural beauty and sensous feel of silk aids meditation by amplifying the subtle energies that flow within. "Silk is particularly good at turning into and holding a vibration, and wearing a silk robe is like stepping into a sacred space" says Coral Temple, London's acclaimed meditation teacher.