There are two main types available: tussah silk and cultivated mulberry silk, which is by far the highest quality. The latter produces smooth, fine-textured bed linen that’s extremely durable ...

where artisans working at home showed her how they hand loomed tussah silk. On returning to Europe, de Le Cuona sent flax to them to be woven into bolts of fabric, but it came off the loom ‘as ...