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Silk tops

Price: £4.17 Excluding VAT at 20%

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B2 grade of fine, white mulberry silk in tops form. Perfect for blending in spinning and adding to feltwork
£5.00 per 100g inc VAT

Tussah tops

Price: £4.17 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Natural honey coloured fibre with wonderful lustre
£5.00 per 100g inc VAT

Throwsters' waste

Price: £3.33 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Silk filament waste in natural white colour. Fibres are long crinkly threads which look particularly good in feltwork and silk papermaking.
£4.00 per 100g inc VAT

Gummy silk waste

Price: £1.67 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Throwsters' waste with the gum in. It feels dry and brittle, but not sticky.
£2.00 per 100g inc VAT

Silk noil

Price: £1.67 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Clean (degummed) silk noil which can be incorporated in to spinning and fetmaking to give interesting textures.
£2.00 per 100g inc VAT

Silk cocoons each

Price: £0.13 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Now available in whole which includes the (dead) grub or cut and the grub removed.
15p each inc VAT

Silk cocoons - Multi-buy
pack of 10 silk cocoons cut with the bug removed, or whole.
£1.00 inc VAT (usually 15p each - ie £1.50)

Price: £0.84 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Silk carrier rods 50g

Price: £1.67 Excluding VAT at 20%

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These resemble long split tubes and can be used for papermaking, feltmaking and embroidery
These dye very well and give a tremendous effect in all crafts.
£2.00 per 50g inc VAT

Carded cocoon strippings

Price: £2.50 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Gummed fibres stripped from silk cocoons for use in papermaking and feltmaking.
£3.00 per 100g inc VAT

Mawata caps - each

Price: £1.25 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Silk mawata caps or bells made from silk cocoons, each have several layers which can be pulled apart to give even finer fibre. As all silk, these dye very well and can then be spun or used in papermaking and feltwork.
£1.50 each inc VAT

Mawata Hankies - each

Price: £1.25 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Squares of layers of silk. Used similarly to mawata caps where each layer is pulled off to spin.
£1.50 each inc VAT

Dyed Silk Rovings - 50g

Price: £3.33 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Beautiful colours of dyed silk in fine rovings or tops as shown. Available in shades listed. Only fairly small amounts of each colour available at any time and colours are added to (and go off) regularly.
Tops are thicker strands than rovings, but the diameter of the silk remains very fine.
£4.00 per 50g inc VAT

Dyed silk noil - 25g

Price: £2.92 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Mainly Mulberry silk noils suitable for use in spinning, silk paper making and felting. Four different colours totalling 25g. Colours in each pack may vary.
£3.50 per pack inc VAT