 an obvious choice for women’s clothing

 stunning qualities which ooze sophistication, glamour and elegance.

 Bridal wear, evening gowns and formal dresses made from satin silk.
 the nature of silk offering beautiful drapes, soft layering and opulent shines.

 Ladies silk clothing also expands into the realms of shirts, blouses, camisoles
and coats.

 Cheap imitation silk materials made with polyester are commonly found in
the fashion industry.
 Silk varieties are also used in items of men’s clothing, such as dress shirts
and suits.
 evening type outfits are often also completed with silk ties and silk pocket
squares for suit jackets to add the finishing touches.
 The strong bond of silk threads offer a lustrous finish

 In high-end menswear, silk is often used as lining inside a jacket or pair of

trousers, and can often be seen used on the front of decorative waistcoats. 

 Silk's absorbency makes it comfortable to wear in warm weather and while active.

 Its low conductivity keeps warm air close to the skin during cold weather.

 used for clothing such as shirts, ties, blouses, formal dresses, high-fashion clothes, lining,
lingerie, pajamas, robes, dress suits, sun dresses, and Eastern folk costumes.

 For practical use, silk is excellent as clothing that protects from many biting insects that
would ordinarily pierce clothing, such as mosquitoes and horseflies.

 Fabrics made from silk include charmeuse, habutai, chiffon, taffeta, crêpe de chine,
dupioni, noil, tussah, and shantung, among others.

furniture
 Silk's attractive lustre and drape makes it suitable for many furnishing applications.
 used for upholstery, wall coverings, window treatments, rugs, bedding, and wall
hangings.
 used for parachutes for its quality and flexible properties; anyway nylon is all the more
normally used today.
 Silk is used to cover furniture, cushions, and gratitude to its quality and sturdiness, it
gives a durable covering.

Décor

 popular fabric used throughout the home, creating lavish furnishings, décor and
accessories.

 When done in the right way, showcasing silk throughout the home is a sure fire way to
impress guests, oozing elegance and luxury the moment they step foot through the door.

Curtains

 Curtains don’t have to be dull and dreary

 Hanging ceiling to floor silk curtains to any window is powerful enough to instantly
transform the area into a parlour fit for royalty.
 Chiffon silk creates the most beautiful drape for curtains.

Bed sheets and duvets

 Sleeping in silk bed sheets may sound a little extra, but there’s good reason for it.
 Soft and incredibly smooth to the touch, silk bedding is comfortable and cosy making it
the perfect accompanient to a good night’s deep sleep.

Pillows

 Perfect for adding a splash of silk without going overboard, silk pillows are a cost-
effective solution to having a taste of that luxurious lifestyle.
 Good for both your bank account and health; sleeping on silk pillowcases can actually
help your skin stay smooth and healthy – reducing the appearance of wrinkles, and also
helps to prevent split ends and the dreaded morning bed head.

Upholstery
 While silk may not be the most serviceable material in terms of every day seating
arrangements, it works perfectly when reserved for lesser used/more valuable ‘display’
pieces of furniture.
 Although, when doing this be sure that extra care is taken to ensure there is a strong,
durable base with plenty of support to keep the silk in tact.

Throw covers

 Throw covers are the simplest way to take your bedroom décor to the next level.
 They add layering and depth to any bedspread to create a cosier, homely look and feel.
 Beds being the focal part of any bedroom, adding a silk throw can achieve a far classier,
more sophisticated look than you ever thought possible.

Wallpapers

There is no such thing as too much silk. Silk on the bed, silk on the windows and even
silk on the walls. Silk wallpaper is a popular choice in any stylish home whether modern
or more contemporary. Adding a silk wall covering to your rooms instantly oozes glitz
and glam.

Industry

Silk had many industrial and commercial uses, such as in parachutes, bicycle tires,
comforter filling, and artillery gunpowder bags.

Medicine

A special manufacturing process removes the outer sericin coating of the silk, which
makes it suitable as non-absorbable surgical sutures. This process has also recently led to
the introduction of specialist silk underclothing, which has been used for skin conditions
including eczema.[73][74] New uses and manufacturing techniques have been found for
silk for making everything from disposable cups to drug delivery systems and holograms.
[

Silk biomaterials are biocompatible when studied in vitro and in vivo. Silk scaffolds have
been successfully used in wound healing and in tissue engineering of bone, cartilage,
tendon and ligament tissues.

Biomaterial

Silk began to serve as a biomedical material for sutures in surgeries as early as the second
century CE.[76] In the past 30 years, it has been widely studied and used as a biomaterial
due to its mechanical strength, biocompatibility, tunable degradation rate, ease to load
cellular growth factors (for example, BMP-2), and its ability to be processed into several
other formats such as films, gels, particles, and scaffolds.[77] Silks from Bombyx mori, a
kind of cultivated silkworm, are the most widely investigated silks.[78]

Silks derived from Bombyx mori are generally made of two parts: the silk fibroin fiber
which contains a light chain of 25kDa and a heavy chain of 350kDa (or 390kDa[79])
linked by a single disulfide bond[80] and a glue-like protein, sericin, comprising 25 to 30
percentage by weight. Silk fibroin contains hydrophobic beta sheet blocks, interrupted by
small hydrophilic groups. And the beta-sheets contribute much to the high mechanical
strength of silk fibers, which achieves 740 MPa, tens of times that of poly(lactic acid) and
hundreds of times that of collagen. This impressive mechanical strength has made silk
fibroin very competitive for applications in biomaterials. Indeed, silk fibers have found
their way into tendon tissue engineering,[81] where mechanical properties matter greatly.
In addition, mechanical properties of silks from various kinds of silkworms vary widely,
which provides more choices for their use in tissue engineering.

Most products fabricated from regenerated silk are weak and brittle, with only ≈1–2% of
the mechanical strength of native silk fibers due to the absence of appropriate secondary
and hierarchical structure,

Military purposes

Rice said spider silk is more elastic than Kevlar, the fibrous material found in the Army's
combat helmet since the 1980s. So, his company's product could also be used in body
armor and even protective undergarments. Scientists at Michigan State University are
also working on a silk product derived from spider DNA.