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<p>[QUOTE="quirkygirl, post: 338513, member: 106"]Hi Billy!</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my simple 'at home' test to see if an item is 100% silk. </p><p>I drop a teeny tiny snippet (smaller than ¼") from an exposed section of seam allowance inside the garment into a small amount of chlorine bleach (I use an open salt dip, but a shot glass or any other small clear glass container would work) </p><p>If it's 100% silk, the threads will completely dissolve in the bleach fairly quickly ... like 15 to 30 minutes or so. </p><p><br /></p><p>A silk blend may be a bit tricky to see with this method, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="quirkygirl, post: 338513, member: 106"]Hi Billy! This is my simple 'at home' test to see if an item is 100% silk. I drop a teeny tiny snippet (smaller than ¼") from an exposed section of seam allowance inside the garment into a small amount of chlorine bleach (I use an open salt dip, but a shot glass or any other small clear glass container would work) If it's 100% silk, the threads will completely dissolve in the bleach fairly quickly ... like 15 to 30 minutes or so. A silk blend may be a bit tricky to see with this method, though.[/QUOTE]
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