ABOUT ARTIFICIAL SILK
Artificial silk, which, lovely as it was, had, until recently, certain disadvantages, stii’li as tendency to crease and an ovcrluminous surface, has now succeeded in overcoming both these disabilities. The harsh “shine” of the old artificial silk is now completely a thing of the past. Hut a clever use Is now made of this shine in many brocades, where threads of greater brighlness are introduced to produce the effect of metal. In this way a very reasonably-priced tapestry or broeatelle can be had which has all Hie beauty of an expensive material in which gold, silver or copper threads have been interspersed. The plain artificial silks are also very lovely, and here mention must be made of ihc excellent now furnishing taffetas and satins that, in soilness and draping capacity as well as splendid colour range, are able to hold their own with much more expensive real silk. The variety to be seen in tapestry materials of every kind is too extensive lo enumerate, but special mention should be made of the newest arliiicial silks woven in subdued modern designs which have all the richness of a rare old brocade.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19330222.2.27.8
Bibliographic details
Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18877, 22 February 1933, Page 5
Word Count
193ABOUT ARTIFICIAL SILK Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18877, 22 February 1933, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in