According to experts and dermatologists, silk is not only one of the most refined and elegant fabrics, but it also has features which are extremely useful as to slow down skin ageing and hair weakening. How is it possible for a fabric to have anti-ageing properties?...
Silk yarns derive from this peculiar structure (see picture); as for us to understand what silk actually is, we need to start from here. The picture has been realized thanks to an electronic microscope, which highlights the structure of a natural silk filament as it is made by silkworms....
“My poems have a silky sound, like the rustling of your dress on the stairs.” Hermann Hesse. Silk is like music. Not just for the soft and romantic rustling we can appreciate when we wear silk-made dresses, but also because silk is used to produce the strings we see on many music instruments. ...
