Fairy Feather Fairy Feather the world's thinnest silk

Textile Design Award Winner.
Awarded for Good Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design.

Fairy Feather Fairy Feather the world's thinnest silk
by Eita Saito

Awarded April 15, 2017
CLIENT: SAIEI ORIMONO CO.,LTD.　／　SAIEI SILK
27.344

The fabric, so ethereal, makes us imagine the texture of the robes worn by the heavenly nymphs in Japanese folk tales. I named it Fairy Feather: the thinnest yarn-dyed silk fabric ever. It is made of ultra-fine silk threads with a thinness of 8 denier in diameter, equaling to 1/6 of the diameter of a hair (50 denier). Thousands of ultra-fine silk threads are woven into the warps on looms to produce this exquisite organdy (ultra-light plain-weave fabric with transparency); it is weightless, yet the softness of the raw silk gently, and surely, cocoons the skin.

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