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Luxury, beauty, refinement, sensuality, elegance - silk is synonymous with all of these. Silk has a greater range in length, texture, strength and lustre than any other fibre, natural or man made and is supremely adaptable. Beautiful to spin and mix with wool too. Silk Tops
Tussah Silk
From silk worms fed on oak leaves. The tops have been both carded & combed so that all the fibres are aligned. All of our tussah silk tops are hand dyed in Australia. Many pages of colour themes to choose from.
Jacinta Leishman's:   page 1   page 2   collections page
Martien Van Zuilen's:   page 1  page 2
Rachel Meek's:   all themes

 

Silk Caps
We have silk caps (as used in the book 'Beautiful Bowls') hand dyed by Jacinta in many of her silk tops colour themes. Available themes are:
Carnivale, Byzantium, Barrier Reef, Brianna, Indian Summer, Ironbark, Jewel, Lavender, Middle Earth, Rivergum, Rust and Stonehaven.
We are constantly replenishing themes.

 

Hand Dyed Silk Hankies
Silk in very fine layer form, hand dyed by Jacinta Leishman. The hankies are made from degummed cocoons that have been stretched over a square frame, forming a square of approx 22cm x 22cm, from which cobweb thin layers of fibre can be peeled off. Beautiful to look at, and great fun for experimenting with. Try trapping things inside the layers. Very versatile.
Colour themes include our collections themes of 'Australiana', 'Opulent', 'Illuminations' and 'Whimsical', as well as almost all of Jacinta's other themes. The 'Australiana' themes as applied to the silk hankies are shown here.
For the other colours, refer to Jacinta's Silk Tops colour charts; page 1, page 2 and collections.

 

Slushies
Exclusive to us; beautiful 15 micron Australian merino and mulberry silk fibres carded in Italy to give a uniform textured, smooth sheeny fibre. Fabulous for wet and dry felt making and loved by the embellisher.
These are being hand dyed by Jacinta Leishman in the same themes as her pure silk fibres. Many themes are in stock and more colours coming as fast Jacinta can dye them.
Available in 50g packs or 25g mini slushie packs.
available themes and slushie packs
mini slushie example
fibre detail

 

Silk 'n Wool
A pack of colour coordinated silk and wool, 25 g wool, 12 g silk. Add spice to your felting and general textile work.
themes

 

Silk Cocoons
These are quite rigid and shell like. We have a range of colours hand dyed by Jacinta Leishman and Oliver Twists. Ten per pack. Pick from the samples shown or just suggest the sorts of colours you would like and we should have something to suit.
pictures

 

Sticks and Stones
From Oliver Twists. Packs of hand dyed silk cocoons and silk cocoon rods. Each pack contains ten cocoon pods and five cocoon rods. Eight colour combinations.
colour themes

 

Silk Carrier Rods, Hand Dyed
In a range of colours hand dyed by Jean Oliver. These come in 6g packs, generally four pods. As we are constantly renewing stocks, sometimes the colour chart does not quite match stock in hand, however, just describe the colours you would like, and we should be able to provide.
examples

 

Silk Jewels
Silk remnants by the warp from weaving mills in India, these highly sheened fibres come in a range of colours. Excellent to add them to your spinning, use for wet felting, needlefelting, nuno felting, quilting techniques, embroidery and with an embellisher. Each warp originates from a woven silk fabric. Chose your hank from the list provided.
hanks and prices

 

Indian Silk Loom Waste
Dyed pure silk fibres recycled from looms. We buy direct, so very good price. A myriad of beautiful colours in a pack.
pictures

 

Silk Fibre by the Gram
Jacinta dyes all sorts of silk fibres for us and I find it diifficult to decide how to add them to our catalogue on the web. Some is packaged for shows and for when customers call, but a lot sits in a few huge bags while I think about it. Now I have decanted most into an enormous basket and we are selling it by the weight. There are all sorts of different fibres but they are all silk; silk tops, filagree, cocoon strippings, soft cocoons, coarse sericen, soft rods etc etc. In pretty much the full range of Jacinta’s colours as well as many experimental combinations, so you can say some are playing colours. You can order by any colour choice and I am sure we can oblige, or you can pot luck and let me choose. I will try my best to give you a variety of different textures and types. Call it a serendipitous approach. Just tell us approximately how much you would like and we'll weigh and send. 25 cents / gram. Some pictures to show the bulk of various gram amounts and the variety of colours and textures.
pictures

 

Silk Sensations Strata Pack
From Oliver Twists, a hand dyed assortment of sumptuous silk textures perfect for needle felting, couching, mixed media, and textile artistry.
picture and themes

 

Kits
Three kits that use silk fibres among other things - - . Silk Paper Making
The easy peasy way to make fabulous paper from silk fibres, with secret ingedient water plus your iron.
kit details Silk Fusion Intro Pack
The best way to learn 'how to' is by doing.
The kit contains netting, hand dyed silk fibres, textile medium and full instructions. If you haven't made silk paper before, then this is everything you need.
pictures and details The Guliette Scarf
A self contained project using Guliette, silk fibres and machine embroidery thread, to make a stunning, stylish scarf. Colour themes are: Indian Splendour, Carnivale, Royal Shiraz, Arabian Nights, Lavender and Lace, Vanilla Beans, Cradle Mountain, Kimberrley Dreaming Barrier Reef and Desert Dawn. If none of these suit, just look through the Silk Tops colours, and choose your own colour theme. Full instructions included.
finished product.