Silk Wholesalers offer the Textile Artist
Customers please note our new telephone/fax number: 08 9397 9218.
Established in 1991 to serve West Australian textile artists, Silk Wholesalers is now run from a property south of Perth. Carol Ann Smith-Kidd owns and runs the business, assisted by daughter Edan.
TAFE and Edith Cowan University trained textile artist, Carol is always happy to offer product advice and tends to stock only tried and reliable items.
There is no middle man. We import our own silks and hand hemmed scarves, which are manufactured for us in China to our own specifications and high quality.
We will never compromise quality for price.
Our silks are natural, un-dyed, un-bleached and free from any additional factory processes such as bulking agents, stiffeners, softeners, lustre agents, crease resistants, fire retardants, soiling repellents. All of which may act as dye resistants.
Silk contains varying amounts of starch and sericin, a naturally occurring protein gum generated by the silk worm. The amount found in silk will very according to environmental and climatic conditions.
We aim always to offer a high quality silk for the best possible price determined by current factors.
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