Many of the silk fabrics used in "crazy" quilts are weighted with mineral salts and other substances. This means the fabrics have been coated with, or have actually absorbed, these substances to give ...

Single Layer Silk and Cotton Woven Fabrics for Acoustic Emission and Active Sound Suppression. Advanced Materials , 2024; DOI: 10.1002/adma.202313328 Cite This Page : ...

Researchers have engineered a silk fabric that can suppress noise by either generating sound waves that interfere with the noise or by blocking vibrations that are key to the transmission of sound.

Researchers have developed a lightweight fabric from a thin layer of silk with a special fibre sewn into it that, they say, can reduce noise transmission by up to 75 per cent.