I bought this Crepe De Chine Scarf in 2009.
Since I didn't open the packet, it is still brand new.
Crepe de Chine fabric has a slightly crinkled or "pebbled" texture with a gentle, graceful drape, a very soft hand, and a more substantial weight than most Habotai. Because of the texture, the sheen is much more subtle on this weave of silk. This fabric is one of the more luxurious of the silks.
The item has hand rolled hems with 100% silk thread.
Thickness: 14mm (momme weight), about 60g per square meter.
What is Momme?
Momme weight describes the weight of 100 yards of silk, 45 inches wide, in pounds. So, if a fabric is listed with a momme weight of 8mm, it means that 100 yards of the fabric weighs 8 pounds.The higher the momme, the tighter the weave, meaning more silk was used per square inch. This is because silk has a very fine thread (1 Denier).
Fun fact: a single strand of silk fibre is approximately 1/10th thickness of human hair.
Whilst being very fine, silk is stronger than steel of the same diameter, and the strongest natural fibre on earth.
With such a thin thread, that can vary between cocoons, the thread count would not only be incredibly high (in the thousands), it wouldn't offer a feasible way of measuring one fabric against another, so an alternative measurement to thread count was devised by the Japanese. Momme. This measurement is still used as the standardised measurement of the density/weight of silk fabric to this day.