Watered silk

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Gown of watered silk, 1840-44.
Gown of watered silk, 1840-44.

Watered silk is a type of silk fabric which has been passed through a set of rollers as a fabric finishing process, to give the surface a moiré pattern which looks like a water surface.

Other fabrics can be given the same process.

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