Silk products are not cheap, are they? Yes, they are expensive, sorry.
This is because the cost of raw materials is orders of magnitude higher than other materials.
So, if you want to sell at a wallet-friendly price, you have to cut your profit margins significantly, which makes it very difficult to keep your store open for a long time.
Some stores, even if they wanted to sell silk products, didn't because the profit margins were thin (it's only natural for a business owner to think that way), while others started out as silk specialty stores, but found it difficult to continue due to the high purchase prices, which put a strain on their business, and made the difficult decision to close down...
That's the kind of industry it is, actually.
So it's hard to find silk products.
Moreover, 100% silk products are only available at famous foreign designer brands, and the only other option is to find them in silk specialty stores.
There are several reasons why silk products are so expensive.
First, rarity
Approximately 1,500 meters of 3 denier raw silk can be harvested from one cocoon.
To produce 1 kg of raw silk, about 5 kg of cocoons are needed, which amounts to about 3,000 cocoon grains.
Because the thickness of the fabric and the weaving method differ depending on how the clothes are made, it is not possible to calculate exactly how many meters of fabric (or how many cocoon grains) are needed to make one piece of clothing, but if you take a kimono as an example, it is said that the amount needed to make one adult kimono is about one bolt (37 cm wide and 12 m long ).
It takes 1kg of raw silk to make one bolt of cloth.
Silk is a natural product and cannot be harvested in large quantities. Moreover, it takes a lot of cocoons to make products.
In addition, it takes a lot of time and effort to turn it into raw silk.
And one more thing
Silk is very delicate and difficult to handle, so there are very few factories that can produce it.
It is true that silk is an expensive material and because of its delicate nature there is a possibility that substandard products will be produced, so factory workers are not keen on producing silk products due to the high production risk.
As you can see, there is a reason why silk products are so expensive.
I believe that even though it may be expensive, it is worth the same when you consider the strengths, greatness, and quality of silk itself.
Good things, nice things, are expensive
"That's why it's expensive."
Yes, there's a reason why products are expensive.
For example, it may be something that a talented designer has drawn, or the design itself may be of great value, or the production process may take an enormous amount of time, or the material itself may be of high quality (= an item of high quality: valuable or rare materials, etc.), etc.
Silk is a luxury material in itself!
Silk is the best! Love Silk
Silk maniac
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