Silk fibres and tops Silks

Silk tops
B2 grade of fine, white mulberry silk in tops form. Perfect for blending in spinning and adding to feltwork
£6.00 per 100g inc VAT

Price: £5.00 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Tussah tops
Natural honey coloured fibre with wonderful lustre
£6.00 per 100g inc VAT

Price: £5.00 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Throwsters' waste - OFFER
Silk filament waste in natural white colour. Fibres are long crinkly threads which look particularly good in feltwork and silk papermaking. Now a different supplier and lower price.
£3.00 per 100g inc VAT This month £2.50

Price: £2.08 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Silk noil
Clean (degummed) silk noil which can be incorporated in to spinning and fetmaking to give interesting textures.
£2.50 per 100g inc VAT

Price: £2.08 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Silk cocoons (10)
pack of 10 silk cocoons cut with the bug removed, or whole.
£1.50 inc VAT

Price: £1.25 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Silk carrier rods 50g
These resemble long split tubes and can be used for papermaking, feltmaking and embroidery
These dye very well and give a tremendous effect in all crafts.
£2.00 per 50g inc VAT

Price: £1.67 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Carded cocoon strippings
Gummed fibres stripped from silk cocoons for use in papermaking and feltmaking.
£4.00 per 100g inc VAT

Price: £3.33 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Mawata caps - each
Silk mawata caps or bells made from silk cocoons, each have several layers which can be pulled apart to give even finer fibre. As all silk, these dye very well and can then be spun or used in papermaking and feltwork.
Weights vary, but approx 15g each
£1.50 each inc VAT
From Janet Renouf-Miller - Tips for spinning silk caps or hankies - work with a small amount of fibre.
Keep your hands far apart whilst pre- drafting and drafting.
And fan the fibres sideways as you draft them.

Price: £1.25 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Mawata Hankies - each
Squares of layers of silk. Used similarly to mawata caps where each layer is pulled off to spin.
Weights vary, but approx 5g each
£1.50 each inc VAT
From Janet Renouf-Miller - Tips for spinning silk caps or hankies - work with a small amount of fibre.
Keep your hands far apart whilst pre- drafting and drafting and fan the fibres sideways as you draft them.

Price: £1.25 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Dyed Silk Rovings - 50g
Beautiful colours of dyed silk in fine rovings or tops as shown. Available in shades listed. Only fairly small amounts of each colour available at any time and colours are added to (and go off) regularly. Numbers in brackets refer to the number of 50g balls available.
Tops are thicker strands than rovings, but the diameter of the silk remains very fine.
£4.00 per 50g inc VAT

Price: £3.33 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Dyed silk noil - 25g
Mainly Mulberry silk noils suitable for use in spinning, silk paper making and felting. Four different colours totalling 25g. Colours in each pack may vary.
£4.00 per pack inc VAT

Price: £3.33 Excluding VAT at 20%

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