So...

[telophase]

...anyone know how to tell the difference between a silk and a silk blend? :D I got the $15 bag o'scraps from Ah! Kimono, which is a store that sells scraps of vintage kimono fabric. You can get bundles of color-similar fabric large enough to do stuff with, or go for the grab bag o'small scraps, which I did, since I only need small amounts of fabric for the kanzashi.

It says they're a mix of silk and silk blends, but I haven't fondled enough silk in my time to be able to really tell which is which. I'm going to try using all of them to see how the different fabric handle, but it'd be nice to know which is which for future kanzashi. :D

Photo of scraps up after I download it from my camera. :)

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks! :D I have no idea how they'd handle - lighter would probably be nice, as the petals wouldn't be so thick they're hard to manipulate, and it'd be easier to layer them. I have no idea how the slippery would work - if it can hold together long enough to get placed in the rice-starch paste, and is light enough that the paste holds it, it'd probably be fine. But I'm up for experimentation. :)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I guess the next question is, any particular colors you do/do not want? I do have something of a preponderance of dark colors, but there are bound to be a few brighter things lurking in the boxes. And how big do your fabric squares need to be?

(What I might just do is just put together one quickie envelope of really tiny scraps of known fiber content that you can practice burn testing on, since those can be all the odds and ends too small to do anything else with. And then I can try to put together a slightly bigger batch of actual usable scraps. Hmmm, I should dig through the button stash, too...I bet there's some unwanted pastels that came in grab bags I could throw in while I'm at it...)