{"id":182,"date":"2018-07-25T04:37:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2024-12-15T22:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:27:36","slug":"silk-term-glossary-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/silk-term-glossary-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Silk Term Glossary II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/\">Wild Silk<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 silk harvested from silkworms that grow in the wild and eat a diet of whatever plant food is available to them. The natural color of wild silk ranges from a light ivory to a darker tan. It is less expensive than cultivated silk and not as durable. Although it is a good choice for many applications it is not the best choice for silk bedding because it is not as durable as cultivated silk.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/\">Tussah Silk<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 a type of wild silk that typically comes from India or China with the India silk typically having more luster to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/\">Thrown or Reeled Silk<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 a process done by hand to unwind the silk filaments from the cocoon. Most thrown or reeled silk is cultivated silk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Silk \u2013 silk harvested from silkworms that grow in the wild and eat a diet of whatever plant food is available to them. The natural color of wild silk ranges from a light ivory to a darker tan. It is less expensive than cultivated silk and not as durable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-silk-guides","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}