Bleached White Tussah Silk 1 LB roving fiber spinning One Pound

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I am having the best time dying up this lovely bleached white tussah silk. It comes out so shiny!  You can dye it yourself, or add it to some other fiber that you're carding, or you can card it into a rolag, or you can start spinning.
I like to make a blend of 1/3 silk, 1/3 angora and 1/3 alpaca for my spinning. If you look at the 4th and 5th pictures, you can see what it looks like to blend in the white silk with other fibers. I actually own a manual drum carder and an electric drum carder. I use the manual carder when I want to lightly blend my fiber so it has bits and flecks of fiber in the finished batt. And when I want a thoroughly blended batt, I use the electric drum carder. I like to add the silk at the very end with colored batts so it stays a little separate, and for white batts, I blend the silk, bunny and alpaca twice through the carder.
One of my customers used the tussah silk in soap! All the websites say it makes the soap shinier and gives it a silky feel. You don't need much; you add a cotton ball-sized pinch to your lye water and let it dissolve.
Silk also adds luster to your felting projects. If you look at the last picture, the silk has lots of shine compared to the wool. The last picture is an example of wet felting that I did with merino wool, silk fabric, and silk fibers. You can't just plunk the silk onto your project; you have to anchor it with wisps of the wool. It crinkles along with the underlying silk fabric.
The last five pictures show examples of what I've done combining silk with various fibers for spinning, knitting and wet felting.
UGGH - Ebay is not letting me pick USPS Fixed Rate Priority Padded Envelope, I suppose because you might conclude that I could fit an endless amount of fiber in this envelope. I can fit 1 pound in this envelope. So if you order 1 pound, I will happily mail it in the Priority Padded Envelope and refund the difference. This envelope costs .40.