Wild silk is uneven by nature, and the slubs and thick places a reeled silk would count as faults are the whole character of the cloth. Underwood was drawn from an Indian silk artefact and reproduces exactly that irregularity, three-dimensional in the surface, with a marked mélange running through the yarn so no two handspans look quite alike.
It is not silk. It is solution-dyed polyester, flame retardant and anti-UV, with colour locked into the fibre rather than applied to it, which gives 7 out of 8 for light fastness and makes it a sensible specification for a room that takes strong sun. 26,000 Martindale and contract upholstery certification in the UK cover the rest. Some of the twelve shades follow the colours of handmade silk and others make no attempt to. 830 g, 145 cm wide, design Formafantasma, made in Italy.
