Silk Fabrics

We offer a broad collection of hand-woven silk fabrics in many designs, colours and with beautiful embroideries. These range from dazzling dupions to fine mulberry organzas, tuffetas, crepe, georgette, chiffon, matka, tussah, tissue, noil, tabby, satin and twills and many other qualities.

There is a big variety available for both the price and quality conscious customers. These silk fabrics are used by the best quality designers all over the world for their premium selections.

Chiffon

This fabric is softer, thinner, sheer and transparent. Woven from tightly twisted yarn and has crepe like texture drapes beautifully. A soft plain wave fabric made with twisted yarns. It is elegant and has a slightly rough feel. This fabric is used for stoles, dresses, scarves and nightgowns.

Dupion

Silk reeled from double cocoons. Silk doupioni is a crisp fabric with irregular slubs in the yarn, Most popular silk for wedding gowns. An irregular, rough silk reeled from double cocoons or cocoons spun side-by-side which are interlocked, making it necessary to reel them together. The unevenness of the yarn confines its use. it has a nice sheen weaved in hand loom or power loom.

Dupion or Dupioni is a pure silk fabric made out of raw silk fiber. It is silk at its best natural form. Ault inherent random slubs are the main attractive part of its beauty, This type of silk fabrics come in a myriad color range, and world-wide it is considered the best stuff in silk for curtains, upholstery and dresses.

Southtex dupion plain handwoven and available in different qualities and in a big varaity of shades and colours. The perfect fabric for bridal gowns and evening dresses, blouses, jackets, suits, skirts, curtains and home furnishing.

Dupion Style

Dupion style available in different designs, stripes, checks, printed or with beautiful hand embroderies.

Georgett

This fabric is thin and soft and has a grainy sheer texture. It drapes beautifully. Georgette silk is familiar to creape silk but is not as soft as creape has a very nice fall and drapes very easily. This fabric is used for: Blouses, dresses, skirts and evening wear

Jacquard silk

This fabric is smooth, elegant and is made on a jacquard loom. The fabric has a soft or slightly crisp hand depending on the weave.

Khadi

The first true Indian designer was Mahatma Gandhi when he urged the people of India to wear khadi garments. It was not only a call to create self reliance but a call to create self reliance but a call to wear something that could prove the unity of India.

Many fashion conscious Indians will know that India’s rendezvour with textile dates back to ancient times when the Aryans in the Vedic period produced their own cloth. In fact, khadi (which means any cloth that is hand spun and hand woven) had a most religious role in marriages when brides in India were presented with a khada charkha in their wedding trousseau to encourage spinning of the yarn.

Once the sign of freedom, Southtex Khadi today holds it own on the fashion scene it is a part of every wardrobe when it comes to selecting fabric with a discerning eye.

Matka

Matka and Matka Matka used in the world of fashion for jackets, dresses and other garments. Matka is also available in different shades, colours and designs , with or without embrodery

Noil

Silk noil is made from the short fibers left after combing and carding so it doesn't shine like many other silk fabrics. Noil looks similar to cotton, but has the soft feel of silk against the skin. It also drapes better than cotton and resists wrinkling, so it's the perfect choice when traveling. It can be machine washed on gentle and dried on low, but this will cause a faded, "weathered" look. If you prefer bright colors, dry-clean or hand wash

Raw Silk

Raw silk is any silk yarn or fabric that hasn't had the sericin - the natural "gum" that protects the fiber - removed.

Organza

This fabric is thin, transparent and crisp and is plainly woven. Fabric may crush or muss but is easily pressed. It is plain weave sheer silk made of tightly twisted, fine yarns; use for interfacing, veils and under gowns. It has a smooth, flat finish, is strong and durable and is stiff. This fabric is used over other fabrics in: blouses, dresses and evening wear.

Organza is a very fine silk fabric, woven in plain and jaquad patterns, using semi-de-gummed silk yarn and is excellent for making ladies decorative wedding and evening dresses and curtains, table tops, cushion covers etc. Hand-embroidery and hand printing on these fabrics add to its elegance manifold. Our production unit at Varanasi is engaged in its production, with an experience team of craftsmen doing the artistic printing and embroidery work.

Shantung

Once made from hand-reeled tussah silk, today's shantung is usually made with cultivated silk warp yarns and heavier douppioni filling yarns. Depending on the filling yarn, shantung may be lustrous or dull. It has a firm, semi-crisp hand and tends to ravel, so avoid close-fitting styles.

Taffeta

This fabric is supposed to have originated in Persia. The fabric is smooth, tightly woven with fine warp yarn and has a plain weave. Silk Taffeta has a crisp drape. This fabric comes in various weights. Taffeta is a crisp fabric that rustles Taffeta also is a smooth tightly woven fabric with a dull luster. Silk Taffeta has a crisp drape and may be gathered into a lofty fullness

Tussar

Tussah silk, often called shantung, is made from the cocoons of wild tussah silk worms who eat oak and juniper leaves – their "natural" food. Because the worm isn't grown in a controlled environment, the moth hatches from the cocoon thus interrupting the filament length and making the fibers short and coarse instead of long and lustrous Tussah silk is difficult to dye and to most often available in its natural color, a creamy tan. Because of its irregular slubs and the fact that it ravels easily, tussah should be dry-cleaned. It is a good choice for traveling as it doesn't wrinkle easily.

Southtex tussar available in many different qualities, some used for furnishings but the more delicate qualities are used for dresses with beautiful prints in combination with hand embroderies.

Tissue

Tissue Silk is a very fine quality of silk fabric, woven with semi-de-gummed pure silk yarn in the warp and colourful metallic yarn in the weft to provide a rich lustrous look. It is a very shiny, gorgeous fabric, ideal for making ladies' evening dresses, curtains and drapery, shopping bags, cushion and table covers and a host of decorative products. Artistic hand painting and embroidery on this fabric adds to its grandiloquent looks.

Velvet silk

This fabric has a soft, limp hand and a very fragile pile that crushes easily.