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Roslyn Tunic
This simple and elegant top is The Roslyn tunic from Style Arc Patterns, made in silk matka. Silk matka is produced from broken silk cocoons - the silk worm has escaped, so the silk is hand spun, not reeled, resulting in a soft, slubbed, lightly textured hand and supple drape. The silk fibers are spun together by hand without removing the sericin from the fibers, which helps keep the yarns thick while retaining their extremely soft texture. Because of the skills it takes to create this silk it is hard to find and manufacture. One touch reveals an appealing hand with a quiet luster that is at once rustic and elegant. The floating pocket detail adds dimension and is surprisingly simple to sew. The faced and vented hem finish works perfectly, can be work as a ⅞ length or rolled up as a ¾ length sleeve. I suspect that this fabric comes from older stock as the supplier is retiring and keeps 'finding' fabrics in his warehouse. At an wholesale fabric show recently, I was buying silks from a favorite Indian supplier, a family business and I asked about silk matka. The older uncle said that silk matka is disappearing because the workers are aging out, so it is now so expensive he no longer stocks it.
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