New Insights into the Structure of Tin-weighted Silk

Colleagues at the Heritage Science Laboratory at the University of Ljubljana have made an important contribution to the understanding of structural changes in silk fibres caused by the 19th-century practice of ‘tin-weighting’. Using this process, textile manufacturers altered the weight and thus the draping properties of silk, as well as increased its weight, which was …

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