Silk Habotai

1. Art.11206/11117 8mm 44"/54" silk habotai.
2. Art.11216/11118 10mm 44"/54" silk habotai.
3. Art.11160/11386 12mm 44"/54" silk habotai.
4. Art.11218/11185 15mm 44"/54" silk habotai.
5. Art.11224 19mm 54" silk habotai.
6. Art.2004-5 29mm 54" silk habotai

Habutai or Habotai is one of the most basic plain weaves. While it was traditionally woven in Japan, most Habutai is today woven in China. It is normally a lining silk but can also be used for T-shirts, lampshades, summer blouses or very light lingerie.

Plain weave (also called tabby weave or taffeta weave) is the most basic of three fundamental types of textile weaves. It is strong and hard-wearing, used for fashion and furnishing fabrics.

In plain weave, the warp and weft are aligned so they form a simple criss-cross pattern. Each weft thread crosses the warp threads by going over one, then under the next, and so on. The next weft thread goes under the warp threads that its neighbor went over, and vice versa.

Balanced plain weaves are fabrics in which the warp and weft are made of threads of the same weight (size) and the same number of ends per inch as picks per inch.

Basketweave is a variation of plain weave in which two or more threads are bundled and
then woven as one in the warp or weft, or both.
A balanced plain weave can be identified by its checkerboard-like appearance. It is also known
as one-up-one-down weave or over and under pattern.

Some examples of fabric with plain weave are chiffon, organza, and taffeta.

Ausilk has been supplying, in the past 16 years, silk habotai fabric, as one of our most popular and successful item in solid dyed & printed with regualr, softwash or sandwashed finish.
Sometimes customer may refer to Habotai as "China silk".