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Ingredients

Throwster's Waste
and/or
Silk Carrier Rods
and/or
Silk Cut Cocoons

Baking paper, spraying bottle, iron, an old cloth

Pull apart Throwster's Waste until it has the lightness you would like to achieve. Remember: the tighter the fibres are packed, the harder they are to iron. pull apart Carrier Rods into thin layers. If you want a very light paper, the individual layers can be stretched a little bit without separating the fibres completely. Cut a cocoon at least once to the middle or into any shape. Take a sharp needle and separate as many thin layers of the cocoon as is possible. It is quite easy to separate an average 4 layers, but with a little practice and a lot of patience it could be up to 6-7. Put the materials on a baking paper either as a single material or mix it to your liking. Make sure that it is overlapping in many areas so the paper will hold together. Gently spray water over the materials with a spraying bottle. Gently because the spray of water will also cause a blow and that could kind of "dissarange" your desired shape. ut a second layer of baking paper on top and iron it with a hot temperature.

F I N I S H E D!

It is best to put an old cloth underneath as the steam will make the colours bleed and the water will run to the edges. This could stain your ironing board. Preferrably use an old iron and make sure that all fibres are covered with the baking paper. The natural glue in the silk fibres (Sericin) is very difficult to remove from the bottom of your iron.

Let it cool for a while and remove the baking paper.

You can use this mesh as an embellishment for your fabric, put it on top of another textile techniqe instead of tulle, really use it as a gift wrapping, make a lampshade from it, or some cloth (but with this it should only be for decoration, the glue would dissolve again during washing....), make a window shade and and and..... let us know your ideas or send us a photograph, we will put it on the website.