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What is silk in tourist spots?

1. Silk is a textile made of silk or synthetic fibers, man-made fibers and long filaments; A general term for fabrics woven or interwoven with silk or rayon, especially those woven with mulberry silk. The process of weaving raw silk as warp and weft into silk products is the silk weaving process. All kinds of silk fabrics have different production processes, which can be roughly divided into two categories: raw weaving and cooked weaving.

2. Raw weaving refers to making warp and weft yarns into fabrics without scouring and dyeing, which is called blank silk, and then refining and dyeing the blank silk into finished products. This production mode has low cost and short process, and is the main mode used in silk weaving production. Cooked weaving means that warp and weft are dyed before weaving, and the woven blank silk can be finished without scouring and dyeing. This method is mostly used to produce high-grade silk fabrics, such as brocade and taffeta.