[Artemisia] Is modern raw silk period?

[Oogie McGuire]

>What I'm talking about is a sort of nubbly silk.  Not too shiny, 
>more like a linen with stubble.

My understanding is that type of fabric is not typically used in the 
SCA time period. The reason is silk was an expensive fabric and only 
the best got used. The slubby look is indicative of inferior spinning 
so would be rejected. In general fabrics of the SCA time period are 
very finely crafted, no irregular or slubby sections. And the weaving 
was very fine as well, often much finer than we can get today with 
machine woven goods.

Fabric was expensive to produce in terms of labor and materials so 
was done to a very high standard, hence all the rules on weaving 
guilds and what tools could be used to spin the threads used to weave 
fabrics, on how it was measured, tentered, fulled and marketed etc.
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