Silk Satin or Polyester Satin? How to Read the Label
How to tell what a satin is made of: what US fiber-content and care labels must say, what the words mean, and what the label cannot tell you.
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Where Satin Came From and How It Is Made
From a silkworm’s cocoon or a polyester melt to a loom: how satin is made, where the word comes from, and what historians say about its origins.
Read moreTypes of Satin: Charmeuse, Duchesse, Crepe-Back and Other Names
A tour of the named kinds of satin, from charmeuse and duchesse to crepe-back and slipper satin, with a note on where the sources disagree.
Read moreSatin, Sateen and Silk: Three Names People Mix Up
Satin is a weave, silk is a fibre and sateen is a satin weave in spun yarn. Here is how the three words fit together, and where sources disagree.
Read moreSatin Is a Weave, Not a Fibre: Floats, Sheen and Why It Snags
Why satin is a way of weaving rather than a material: how long floats make the shine and the dull back, and why satin snags so easily.
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