n-63 kibiso silk tape "kumihimo" is a traditional Japanese

"kumihimo" is a traditional Japanese brading technique using multiple strands of fine threads

It is becoming more and more difficult to find them…

This is perhaps one of the finest and lightest pure cashmere fabric commercially available

The ends are twisted and connected together all by hand

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n-63 kibiso silk tape "kumihimo" is a traditional JapaneseThis is a very unusual silk made from the waste silk. When you reel silk from a cocoon, there is always a bit of fuzzy thing on the surface, which you need to yank off before you can start reeling cleanly. Traditionally, we never throw this away, and keep it till there is enough to spin silk out. This is what that is. It has a full body, since there is still a sericin on the surface of the yarn. If you degum the yarn, it will become extremely soft and