Last night I played with the silk scrim. Nothing very imaginative, just laid it over the piece I showed you yesterday, secured it with bullion knots, withdrew some threads and manipulated it a bit tying it down here and there....
What did I learn? Well it is easy to withdraw the threads and you are left with a veil of thread that 'shimmers'. I still want to wash some of this to see if that changes it in any way and I plan to apply a little free machine embroidery to some and compare that with the effect produced with normal scrim.
The second image here shows the weave of this cloth quite clearly although the surface is much more 'shiny' than it appears in this picture. I had a few mails again saying that this cloth doesn't look like the silk scrim others have bought. I am not an expert in any way as this is a relatively new discovery for me but Elizabeth sent me an image of what she was sent when she bought silk scrim and to me it more closely resembles silk muslin. It's a mystery.......