30 Momme Silk Bedding Set

Description

PandaSilk’s silk fabric is known for its comfort and beauty – it regulates your body temperature, helps your hair and skin retain precious moisture, and looks great in any room. PandaSilk silk sheet sets provide maximum comfort – you’ll stay cool in the summer, warm in the winter and sleep well all year round. Our sheets are pure silk – NEVER synthetic or polyester satin.

Advantages & Health Benefits

• Exceptional Comfort: The smooth, soft texture of silk provides a luxurious and comfortable sleeping surface, reducing tossing and turning.
• Temperature Regulation: Silk’s natural breathability helps regulate body temperature, keeping you cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
• Hypoallergenic: Naturally hypoallergenic, silk resists dust mites, mold, and mildew, making it ideal for those with allergies or sensitive skin.
• Gentle on Skin and Hair: The smooth surface of silk reduces friction, which can help minimize wrinkles, bedhead, and hair breakage.
• Promotes Restful Sleep: The combination of comfort, temperature regulation, and hypoallergenic properties creates an optimal environment for deep, restful sleep.
• Natural and Sustainable: Made from a renewable resource, silk is a natural and more sustainable choice for bedding.

Silk Bedding Care & Wash

• Machine-washable in cold water on most gentle cycle available.
• Use neutral or special detergent for silk.
• Minimize spin time.
• Hang dry if possible.
• Tumble dry on a cool setting if using drying machine. Avoid drying for extended period of time.
• Iron when slightly damp, using a cool setting. Always iron on the inside.
• Keep out of touch of pets/sharp objects.

Silk Fabric Production Process

Production Line in PandaSilk Factory 2

Production Line in PandaSilk Factory 3

Production Line in PandaSilk Factory 6

Silk is a natural protein secreted by silkworm, it is one of the earliest animal fibers used by humans. According to archaeological discoveries, about 4700 years ago, China used silk to make silk threads, weave ribbons and simple silk fabrics. In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, silk fabrics such as crepe, brocade, and embroidery were made. Silkworms include mulberry silkworm, tussah silkworm, eri silkworm, camphor silkworm and celestial silkworm. Cocoon silk is a thread drawn from a single silkworm cocoon. It is made of two single fibers bonded and covered with sericin. When reeling silk, the silk of several cocoons is drawn out and glued with sericin into silk strips, collectively referred to as silk. Refined silk is silk from which sericin has been removed. Mulberry silk is the most used silk, followed by tussah silk. Other silks have not formed resources due to their limited quantity. Silk is light and slender, the fabric has good luster, comfortable to wear, smooth and plump, poor thermal conductivity, moisture absorption and breathability. It is used to weave various silk sheets and silk clothing, and is used in national defense and healthcare industry. China, Japan, and India are the main silk-producing countries, and their total output accounts for more than 90% of the world’s output.

Composition and Properties of Silk

Silk is a macromolecular chain composed of 18 kinds of amino acids. Among the 18 kinds of amino acids, tyrosine, alanine and serine account for more than 79%. If tyrosine is added, the proportion can reach more than 89%, and the remaining 14 amino acids accounted for only 11%.

1. Appearance. The silk is composed of two triangular or semi-elliptic monofilament fibers wrapped with sericin, and the cross section is oval. From the outer layer to the inner layer of the cocoon, the elliptical cross-section of the silk gradually becomes flat.
2. Internal structure. The main chain of silk is a polypeptide, usually called a peptide chain. The single base of a macromolecule is composed of a variety of a-amino acid residues, and the residues are connected by amide bonds. Each silk is composed of silk fibroin and sericin. Silk fibroin is the main body of silk fiber. Sericin coats the silk fibroin to protect the silk fibroin.
3. Ingredients. The content of silk fibroin in silk is 72%~81%; sericin is 19%~28% ; wax and fat 0.7%~1.5% (protect silk from atmospheric erosion); others such as pigment and ash account for 0.5%~0.8 %.
4. Performance. Density: 1.33 ~1.45g/cm 3 ; Strength: 26~34cN/tex; Elongation at break: 15%~25%; Young’s modulus: 44.14~88.28cN/dtex; Moisture regain: balanced under standard conditions The moisture regain rate is 11%.
5. The physical and chemical properties of silk. The heat resistance of silk is better. When the temperature reaches 120 ℃, it only gradually loses moisture without significant change; when the temperature reaches 150 ℃, the silk gradually releases alkaline ammonia, while the sericin solidifies and changes color; when it reaches 235 at ℃, the silk will be scorched and give off the smell of burning hair. The alkali resistance of silk is much lower than that of cotton, hemp and other fibers. Silk fibroin will be hydrolyzed to different degrees in alkaline solution. Even dilute weak lye can dissolve sericin, and strong strong lye is destructive to silk fibroin. Stronger, so natural silk fabrics are not suitable for washing with alkaline soaps and detergents. The destructive power of acid is far less severe than that of alkali, and this characteristic is also used in the processing technology of various silk fabrics.

How to Make Silk

Specific process: raw material (cocoons) → peeling cocoons → selecting cocoons → boiling cocoons → reeling silk → raw silk → finishing.

1. Cocoon Peeling: Strip the loose and weak cocoon clothing around the cocoon to facilitate cocoon selection, cocoon cooking and silk reeling. Generally, the cocoon clothing accounts for 2% of the total cocoon volume, and it can be used as a silk spinning material.
2. Cocoon Selection: The selection of cocoons is to eliminate inferior cocoons from each batch of cocoons.
3. Cocoon Cooking: Cocoon cooking is the use of water, heat or medicine to properly swell and partially dissolve the sericin on the silk, so as to promote the cocoon silk to retreat from the cocoon layer in sequence.
4. Silk Reeling: The boiled cocoons are sorted through the thread, that is, the silk ends are sorted out, so that the cocoon silk is dissociated from the cocoon layer, and the cocoon silk is combined with several strands to form raw silk.
5. Finishing: Finishing is to make the reeled raw silk into silk yarns of certain specifications on a machine.

Identification Methods of Silk

1. Combustion method. Both silk and animal hair are protein fibers. They will curl near fire and emit yellow flames, accompanied by black smoke, and give off a foul smell.
2. Microscopic method. The appearance of silk has its obvious characteristics under the microscope, which is twisted and triangular in the longitudinal direction and has silky luster, which is obviously different from the appearance of cotton and hemp. The cross-section is double triangle or double ellipse, which is also different from other fibers.