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Choose the right lighting fixtures to add an ambient glow to your living room. Tyler Karu Design + Interiors chose space-saving wall-mounted sconces in this coastal living room that add an ambient glow and double as decor.

To do so, the silk cocoons may be boiled briefly to remove a small amount of the sericin in the cocoons, which is the glue-like substance that silkworms excrete to form their metamorphosis chambers.

This is the kind of quilting you do when you don’t have a specific design in mind and you don’t use your sewing machine pressure feet. Instead, you guide the fabric layers manually.

In medieval times, quilts were made for functional purposes, primarily for beds. But they were nonetheless finely-crafted. Not surprisingly, many of those quilts were handed down by family members from one generation to the next. Some of those quilts are still around today.

Maintain consistent pressure on the rotary cutter handle as you cut. Otherwise, in some places, the blade may not reach completely through the fabric.

Some quilting supplies are available at large retailers like Walmart. If you’re making a simple hand quilt, you may be able to find everything you need under one roof.

Mulberry is the easiest and least expensive type of silk fabric to make. Almost all the silk in the world is mulberry silk, and like other types of this textile, mulberry silk fabric is renowned for its strength, softness, and durability.

When you have a rotary cutter, all you have to do is stack your fabric and hack right through it all with just one cut. If you have a mat, too, your cutting is even more seamless (no pun intended), because it comes with marked lines to guide you.

With fussy cutting, you can use a printed fabric ad as a design motif. Using it as an applique or antique patchwork allows you to make it the central feature of your quilt, or you can repeat it to create a pattern.

If you have a pile of leftover quilt scraps from your last several projects and don’t know what you can do with them, you can put them into a scrap quilt.

Originally, human beings harvested wild silk to make rudimentary fabrics. While worms spin silk in the wild in parts of China, India, and Europe, wild silk is never available in large enough quantities to satisfy the needs of full-blown textile production.

Satin is known to be less absorbing than cotton which allows less moisture to escape into your pillowcase during the night, keeping it locked in your hair instead. This felt amazing and really was a game changer when it came to getting ready.

Considering a career in textile designing? Amazing news! There are tons of opportunities for talented and creative textile designers out there. Whether you want to design elegant fashion pieces or intricate interior design, the possibilities are endless.

For generations, the secrets of sericulture were the most prized and guarded pieces of knowledge of the Chinese nobility, but eventually, information on how to make refined silk spread to Korea and India during the first few centuries AD.