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Silk tops Price: £4.25 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
B2 grade of fine, white silk in tops form. Perfect for blending in spinning and adding to feltwork (£5.00 per 100g inc VAT)

Tussah tops Price: £4.25 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Natural honey coloured fibre with wonderful lustre (£5.00 per 100g inc VAT)

Throwsters' waste Price: £3.40 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
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: £1.70 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Throwsters' waste with the gum in. It feels dry and brittle, but not sticky. £2.00 per 100g inc VAT

Silk noil Price: £1.87 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Clean (degummed) silk noil which can be incorporated in to spinning and fetmaking to give interesting textures. (£2.20 per 100g inc VAT)

Silk cocoons each Price: £0.15 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity: options
Now available in whole which includes the (dead) grub or cut and the grub removed. (15p each inc VAT)

Silk carrier rods 50g Price: £1.27 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
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. (£1.50 per 50g inc VAT)

Carded cocoon strippings Price: £1.70 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Gummed fibres stripped from silk cocoons for use in papermaking and feltmaking. (£2.00 per 100g inc VAT)

Mawata caps - each Price: £1.28 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
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: £1.28 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Squares of layers of silk. Used similarly to mawata caps where each layer is pulled off to spin. (£1.50 each inc VAT)

Merino and silk - white - 50g Price: £2.18 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
a luxurious blend of white merino and white silk tops in a 70/30 blend. £2.50 inc VAT

Dyed Silk Rovings - 50g Price: £3.62 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity: colour options
Beautiful colours of dyed silk in fine rovings. Available in shades shown. Only fairly small amounts of each colour available at any time and colours are added to (and go off) regularly. (£4.25 per 50g inc VAT)

Dyed silk noil - 25g Price: £2.99 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity: colour options
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)

Dyed Merino and silk - 50g Price: £2.13 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity: colour options
Dyed merino and dyed tussah silk, lightly blended in tops form. 5 colours - black, red, teal green and raspberry - each in 50g balls (£2.50 per 50g inc VAT)

Sari silk threads - 25g multi coloured pure silk loose threads in beautiful jewel colours mixed together. Mostly very short lengths. I cannot give individual colours, but if you require a particular colourway (eg greens/yellows) please ask and I shall try to do the best I can. £1.00 per 25g Price: £0.85 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:

Sari silk waste - 25g a mass of multi coloured pure silk loose threads and fibres mixed together in beautiful colours. Ideal for feltmaking and silk papermaking £1.00 per 25g Price: £0.85 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:

Banana fibre threads 25g Often called Banana Silk, but these threads are made from fibre from the banana plant. Plain white or multi coloured loose threads in beautiful jewel colours mixed together. I cannot give individual colours, but if you require a particular colourway (eg greens/yellows) please ask and I shall try to do the best I can. Lengths of threads vary considerably. £1.00 per 25g Price: £0.85 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity: colour