Silk Top

Silk tops can be laid out in the same fashion as felting wool on top of a bed of wool fibres and wet felted to create a lustrous surface design on a finished piece of woollen felt. 

The  fibres can also be  arranged in layers without any wool and a textile bonding medium applied to create beautiful  handmade silk paper.

Tussah silk is the product of the wild caterpillar Antheraea which feeds naturally on a diet of leaves that contain tannin, giving the tussah silk in its natural state, a honey coloured appearance.  Tussah silk tops  have  a  slightly more woolly, fibrous appearance. 

Mulberry Silk(also known as Bombyx Silk) is created by feeding mulberry leaves to domesticated caterpillars (Bombyx Mori) . 

Our experience is that once wet felted into our felting wool, our tussah and mulberry silk tops produce the same amount of lustre.