Bourette

Bourette is a shoddy silk fabric with bumps often blended with other yarns. It has a rough surface incorporating multicolored threads and knots of spun silk. The fabric is made with silk bourette and wool or cotton yarn. Bourette is a lightweight single cloth with a rough, knotty, and uneven surface.[1] The name "Bourette" is from its constituting fiber, which is too short of producing schappe. There are two grades of silk yarn, schappe and bourette.

The bourette is a coarse, irregular slubbed yarn type made of silk waste fiber created during silk processing of silk to fine yarn.[2]

Construction

The fabric is a plain weave fabric but also possible with twill weave. The warp is made with wool or other types of yarns, and in the weft, irregularly bourette yarn is used. The yarn slubs provide a unique texture with small fancy colored lumps, scattered throughout, in accordance with the yarn feeding.[1]

Uses

The bourette was used for ladies dresses, blouses, shirts and wraps.

References
  1. Ingrid Johnson, Phyllis G. Tortora (2013). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 71. ISBN 9781609015350.
  2. Simmonds, Peter Lund (1876). Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances. Hardwicke and Bogue.


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