During Labor Day, a couple came to the village, shouting with a horn to make silk quilts, you can buy silkworm cocoons from them to make silk quilts, or you can provide silk quilts for them to process.
But now there is basically no one in the village to raise silkworms, so there are no cocoons. If you want to make silk quilts, you have to buy them from them.
And the price is not too expensive, they said that the original price is more than 200 yuan a catty, and now during the May Day holiday, it is 180 yuan a catty, all of which are purchased on the spot to buy silkworm cocoons, and then make them after weighing.
Many people in the village are very excited, after all, this is a silk quilt made of silkworm cocoons. Even if the silkworm cocoon is 180 yuan a catty, a double quilt of about 3 catties is 540 yuan.
If you buy a large amount, the price can be more favorable, so some people in the village have placed orders. After all, silk quilt is a well-known high-quality quilt in the mainland, with its lightweight, warm and comfortable characteristics, favored by the majority of consumers, and has been high-end bedding since ancient times.
In particular, this is an unadulterated silk quilt, directly watching them buy silkworm cocoons, and then also making silk quilts on the spot in the village, if you have time, you can keep watching them make them. The boss also said, "100% mulberry silk, fake one fine 10,000".
Even the editor's daughter-in-law was moved, saying that several neighbors had already placed orders to buy them, and they also wanted to place orders to make two silk quilts.
But I made a special call to ask some acquaintances in this area, only to learn that there is also a hidden mystery. It turns out that silk quilts are also divided into types, and the more common ones are mulberry leaf silk and tussah silk, and they have their own advantages and disadvantages, let's take a look!
What is Tussah Silk?
The so-called tussah silk is the cocoon of the silkworm spun by the silkworm. If the mulberry leaf silkworm is a domestic silkworm, then the silkworm is a wild silkworm, which is a silkworm of the genus Lepidoptera.
In some places, it is also called spring silkworm, mistletoe, oak silkworm, etc., mainly distributed in the northern region, which is more common in Liaoning, Henan, Shandong and other provinces. The reason why they are called tussah silkworms is because this silkworm likes to eat the leaves of the oak tree.
Tussah silk is also one of the unique natural textile raw materials in the mainland, its silk has a unique jewelry luster, natural luxury, smooth and comfortable characteristics, and the mainland is also the earliest use of silkworms and stocking silkworms in the country, the use of silkworms in the mainland has a very long history.
As the name suggests, the mulberry leaf silkworm is a silkworm species that feeds on mulberry leaves and belongs to the domestic silkworm. They are bred in captivity, the growth environment is stable, and the quality of the silk produced is relatively stable. But nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people raising silkworms, so mulberry leaf silk quilts are becoming more and more precious.
What is the difference between mulberry silk and tussah silk?
In terms of color, mulberry silk and tussah silk also have obvious differences. The cocoons of mulberry silk are mostly crystal clear white, and they are also very clean, after all, they are in a breeding environment. Therefore, this natural milky white color makes mulberry silk do not need to be bleached during processing, and its original natural color is retained.
The cocoon is generally dark brown, or gray and green and other colors, these colors of the cocoon need to be drifted in the process of processing, the more common is to use peroxide to drift the cocoon, or with alkaline substances to bleach, may also need to add fluorescent brighteners and other chemicals to fade, in order to make the silk appear white or light yellow.
Therefore, one of the differences between the two is that mulberry silk is pure and natural, while tussah silk contains more or less certain chemicals.
In addition, their processing technology is also different, among which the processing of mulberry silk, especially the processing of tussah silk, needs to go through multiple processes, including fading, bleaching, impurities, etc., these processes may also cause the natural components in the silk to be damaged to a certain extent.
Secondly, there is also a difference in the feel of the touch. Mulberry silk is delicate to the touch, the silk is soft and elastic, giving people a feeling of warmth and jade. Tussah silk is slightly rough in the hand because of the bleaching and fading treatment in the processing process, the silk is hard, and the rigidity is strong. Such a difference in feel also makes mulberry silk better in terms of comfort.
In addition to the above differences, there are also significant differences in the quality of mulberry silk and tussah silk. Due to the stability of its growth environment and the simplicity of the processing technology, the quality of mulberry silk is relatively stable.
Because of the uncertainty of the growth environment and the complexity of the processing technology, the quality of the silk has certain fluctuations. In general, the quality of mulberry silk is better than that of tussah silk in all aspects, but the price is also relatively high.
At present, most of the silk quilts on the market are made of tussah silk, just because there are a lot of tussah silk in the wild environment, which can be obtained in large quantities by stocking, and the cost is much lower than that of cultivated mulberry silk, so there are also advantages in price.
Seeing this, everyone should also understand, although the boss said that the silk quilt they made was 100% silk, this is also true. However, silk quilts are also divided into mulberry silk and tussah silk, which have their own characteristics and advantages and disadvantages, and the price difference is also very different.
Therefore, when you buy silk quilts, we need to choose according to your own needs and budget. At the same time, it is also necessary to pay attention to the quality of the product to ensure that the high-quality silk quilt products are purchased. #头条创作挑战赛#