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Dupion Silk Checks Fabrics: Dupion Checks Silk Fabrics are crisp, rough, uneven texture and a dull luster. Generally it is dyed in attractive colours and is often glittering. However it may also be natural in color or bleached white. It is usually reeled and used to make fine or heavy yarns with pronounced irregular slubs at random intervals. Dupion Checks silk usually comes from cultivated, rather than wild. This silk is easy to dye in bright and attractive colours. Heavy dupion Checks silk fabric is an elegant fabric woven with slubbed yarns of silk dupion. The heavy classic dupion silk cloth is made with a tight plain weave, fine warp yarns and heavier, slubbed filling yarns that form prominent, irregular crosswise ribs. The Indian dupion silk is produced when two or more silkworms spin their cocoons closely together. This type of silk is used in a number of fabrics, but the classic Dupion silk cloth is made with a tight plain weave, fine warp yarns and heavier slubbed filling yarns that form prominent, irregular crosswise ribs.
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