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- 80cm X 50cm with "tucks" to retain your pillow
- Unbleached, 100% natural silk, Ivory in colour
- Possibly the thickest silk pillowcase on the market, yet still incredibly soft
- Unique, non-shiny appearance to blend in with your bedroom
- Prevents your expensive nightcreams being wicked-away at night
- The same postage & packaging charge to anywhere in the World
- Helps to prevent follicle breakage due to continuous hair styling (ie straightening, extensions, chemical treatment etc)
- SilkPerfect pillows are being used in research on asthma and eczema relief
Why SilkPerfect?
The concept for SIlkPerfect emerged many years ago whilst the owner lived in Malaysia, working for a fashion and lifestyle magazine. Many of the older chinese women would use silk wraps or pillowcases for their hair, and some of the younger models turned up for photoshoots wearing them. When asked what they were for, they espoused the huge advantages for their hair and skin and couldn't understand why more in the West didn't use them.
Upon returning to the UK, the founder's silk pillowcases needed replacing after many years' good use, but he couldn't find any readily available. Non-shiny pillowcases were desired as they would go better with the founder's bedroom decoration and shiny pillowcases just seemed "cheesy". Thus many manufacturers were met with in China, the home of silk, and more than 15 different silk styles, softness and thickness were extensively tested before the current unique formulation was settled upon.
Today SilkPerfect pillowcases are in use across Europe, America, Africa, the Antipodes - and are increasingly sold to the Far East where the ancient concept originated!
Did you know?
- The process of silk-making was developed in ancient China, possibly as early as 6000 BC. Legend gives credit to the Chinese empress, Xi Ling-Shi.
- For many millennia the protection of the secrets surrounding the production of silk were officially punishable by death in China.
- Although other countries are now known for their silk making abilities, the Chinese are still the true connoisseurs and produce about half the silk made in the entire world.
- The cultivation of silk is called "sericulture".
- Mongols used silk as part of the under-armor garments. Silk is tough enough that it was used as very light armor, though its special use was to stop arrow penetration into the body. The silk would stop an arrow from penetrating far enough into the body to be lethal, and the arrow could be pulled out of the wound by tugging on the unbroken silk.
- Silk is made up of 17 amino acids.
- A silkworm multiplies its weight 10,000 times from time it is hatched until 1 month later, when it has enough energy stored to start spinning its cocoon.
- The white cocoon spun by a silkworm is one long continuous filament that, when unwound, is usually between 600 and 900 meters but can be a mile long!
- SilkPerfect silk comes from the Bombyx mori moth, which produces the finest and purest silk, due to a diet that consists only of chopped mulberry leaves. The silkworms are fed every half hour 48 times a day.
- It takes around 30,000 silkworms to produce 12 pounds of raw silk.
- The Emperor Justinian is reputed to have stolen the secret of silk production via two monks, who hid the details in the hollow shafts of their walking staffs.