Bourette
{{short description|Coarse, irregular slubbed fabric (with bumps) made with bourette yarns.}}
Bourette is a silk fabric with bumps often blended with other yarns made of Bourette fibers. The name "Bourette" is from its constituting fiber. It has a rough surface incorporating multicolored threads and knots of spun silk. The fabric is made with silk bourette and wool or cotton yarn. Bourette is a lightweight single cloth with a rough, knotty, and uneven surface.{{Cite book|last=Ingrid Johnson|first=Phyllis G. Tortora|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTYfAQAAQBAJ&dq=bourette+cloth&pg=PA71|title=The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|year=2013|isbn=9781609015350|location=|pages=71}}{{Cite book|last=Montgomery|first=Florence M.|url=http://archive.org/details/textilesinameric00mont|title=Textiles in America 1650-1870: a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchants' papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth|date=1984|publisher=New York; London : Norton|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-393-01703-8|pages=175}}
Silk waste
Silk waste has many copious names whereas Floss is a general name for silk waste. Other names are 'Schappe' or 'echappe.'{{Cite book|last=Nystrom|first=Paul Henry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MH81AAAAMAAJ&q=The+general+names+for+both+varieties+are+silk+waste,+floss,+schappe,+or+echappe.|title=Textiles|date=1916|publisher=D. Appleton|pages=195|language=en}}
"Schapping" is a step of silk production of fermentation at low temperature for softening the gum.{{Cite book|last=Rayner|first=Hollins|url=http://archive.org/details/silkthrowingwast0000holl|title=Silk throwing and waste silk spinning|date=1921|publisher=London, Scott, Greenwood & Son; New York, D. Van Nostrand Co.|others=Internet Archive|pages=xv}} Schappe is one of the made products from Silk waste/Floss.
= Bourette and Florette =
Silk waste consists of two types, Bourette and Florette. The bourette fibers are short in length compared to the 'Florette', which are long silk fibers, suitable for products such as combed or worsted materials.{{Cite book|last=Georgievics|first=Georg Von|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GL98CgAAQBAJ&q=Bourette+and+Florette&pg=PT37|title=The Chemical Technology of Textile Fibres - Their Origin, Structure, Preparation, Washing, Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing and Dressing|date=2013-01-31|publisher=Read Books Ltd|isbn=978-1-4474-8612-1|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dBDOAAAAMAAJ&q=Bourette+and+Florette|title=Textile World Record|date=1905|publisher=Lord & Nagle Company|pages=83|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Basu|first=Trailokya Nath|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPIhAAAAMAAJ&q=Bourette+and+Florette|title=Tant-o-rang: A Book of Textile Technology|date=1964|language=en}}
Construction
= Bourette yarn =
Bourette yarn is a coarse, irregular slubbed yarn type made of silk waste fiber created during silk processing. {{Cite book|last=Simmonds|first=Peter Lund|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Paxtx4UdLwAC&dq=bourette+silk&pg=PA110|title=Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances|publisher=Hardwicke and Bogue|year=1876|isbn=|location=|pages=}}
= Weave =
The fabric is a plain weave fabric but also possible with twill weave. The warp is made with wool or other types of yarns, and the weft is bourette. The yarn slubs provide a unique texture with small fancy colored lumps, scattered throughout.
Uses
Bourette was used for dresses, and furnishing material.