The variety of silk fabrics
There are countless different silk fabrics that offer a wide range of applications and design possibilities for fashion designs. In addition to the classic silk satin, some silk fabrics surprise with their structure, finishing or effects.
Today silk can be produced industrially in different variations without losing its specific properties: glossy, matt, smooth, firm, flowing, heavy, light, transparent, finished with pattern printing, surfaces and much more. An incredibly beautiful variety of expression and aesthetics.
In addition, there are silk fabrics that are not made exclusively of silk but are combined with other natural textile fibres such as cashmere, cotton or linen.
KoKKon uses this rich variety of silk fabrics and shows how different natural silk can be transformed into modern designs. Let yourself be inspired by the Kokkon silk fashion and accessories and experience this noble charisma and the irresistible feeling of well-being of silk, which can be compared to nothing.
"In my opinion, silk can't be replaced by anything, it can seem delicate and feminine, or highly technical and ultramodern." Designer Julian McDonald
Opulent silk fabrics
Dense, three-dimensional silk fabrics that impress with their complex texture
Elaborately patterned jacquard silk, interwoven with metal threads
Large-area patterned fabric made on jacquard machines
Luxury fabric with motifs that stand out due to a change in weave and that appear on the reverse side of the fabric. A solid, heavy substance
A silk fabric, falls very softly
Double fabric in which the upper and lower fabrics have different shrinking properties and the finished fabric casts "bubbles
Plastic silk fabrics
Non-transparent silk fabrics that are perfectly drapable, soft and firm at the same time
Silk, where only the warp threads are visible on the surface. Satin silk shines beautifully and falls very softly
Fine wild silk with clear irregularities in the surface
Silk of the Tussah silkmaker with relatively irregular structure and naturally in shades of brown
Silk fabrics woven from the threads of the double cocoon with a relatively even surface
Tightly woven silk, which often consists of different colours for warp and weft threads and thus gives beautiful colour gradations in the same tone
Glossy fabric with wavy line patterning
Medium weight silk chain atlas with glossy front and matt back side
Transparent silk
Delicate and soft or stiff and structured
Wafer-soft veil-like fabric in plain weave
Manufactured like chiffon, but with multiple twisted yarn
Has a transparent mesh or honeycomb structure
Weicher, sehr leichter halbtransparenter Seidenstoff in Leinwandbindung
Delicate, soft, extremely thin fabric with a net-like surface
A somewhat strong semi-transparent fabric in plain weave
Fabric with a clear structure made of strongly twisted double yarn in plain weave
(Source: Naturfaserstoffe, 2010 of Clive Hallett and Amanda Johnston)
Flowing Silk
Sensual and tactile, like a second skin
Lightweight knitted fabric made of silk with an especially soft fall
Slightly crimped fabric made of heavily twisted yarns
Almost transparent silk in crepe weave with slightly crimped surface
Light frizzy fabric n Satin weave with a particularly beautiful fall
