CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Which is better, mulberry silk or tussah silk (is tussah silk better for making quilts)

1. Is it better to buy mulberry silk or tussah silk when buying a silk quilt?

Of course, mulberry silk quilts are better.

The silkworms eat different food, so the silk they produce is also different.

Mulberry silkworms eat a kind of mulberry leaf. The leaves are very large and thick. They are domesticated. So the cocoons they make are also very large and white. Tussah silkworms eat tussah leaves, which are small and thin. Most of them are raised outdoors, similar to wild silkworms, so the cocoons they make are also small and yellow. The silk produced by silkworms that eat mulberry leaves is much better.

It is easy to distinguish mulberry silk and tussah silk by careful observation. Mulberry silk is more crystal clear and shiny. Tussah silk is a bluish-gray yellow. Mulberry silk is arranged more neatly, while tussah silk is clumpy and broken, and the quilt made of it is a bit uneven in thickness.

Mulberry silk is a long filament with good stability. The silk quilt sold can be perfectly fixed with just a few points, which not only keeps the silk quilt soft but also not easy to deform. If you pull it up a little from the zipper on the side, it will not break. If you pull it for a long distance and it is continuous, it is undoubtedly mulberry silk, and if it is short, it is tussah silk.

2. Which is better, mulberry silk or tussah silk?

The difference in performance between mulberry silk and tussah silk is that mulberry silk has better comprehensive performance than tussah silk in terms of warmth retention, breathability, comfort and fit, while tussah silk is slightly better than mulberry silk in terms of firmness and resilience.

In terms of price, silkworms need to be raised artificially, which takes up a lot of manpower, and the south mostly uses mulberry silk to make yarn and clothing, so the price is higher. Tussah silkworms are wild and mainly produced in the north, where the textile industry is underdeveloped, so the amount used is small and the price is naturally lower. Both have their own strengths, and both are animal proteins that are close to human skin protein. Both have the advantages of good air permeability, UV protection, and good moisture absorption, so silk products are noble textile products, and the price is naturally expensive.

3. Which is better, mulberry silk or tussah silk?

Mulberry silk is better. Quilts made of silk are particularly soft and close-fitting; however, there is also a disadvantage, that is, after a period of use, the gaps between the silk threads tend to tighten, causing the quilt to become thinner and the warmth-keeping effect is not as good as before.

Compared with mulberry silk, tussah silk is darker in color, and its original color is gray-black. This color of material is usually not accepted by consumers for making quilts; some manufacturers will use white alkali to rinse it, but the actual chemical residue is very low and does not harm people.