Silk Fabric Guide
This guide explains how to sort a silk fabric choice by planned use and what to include in an inquiry. It is a guide and inquiry-confirmation page: it states no fabric claim beyond the family name.
Sort by planned use first
A silk fabric choice starts with the planned use, not with the family name. Fabric for scarf lines of the buyer's own, and fabric for other planned uses, point to different groupings of the list, and the questions beside each item follow the grouping. Name the planned use for each group, so the list reads as groups rather than as a single undifferentiated set.
The family name covers a wide span of buyer searches, from yardage wordings to colour wordings. None of those search words settles the choice on its own. The planned use does that work, together with the requirements named in the inquiry.
Fabric requirements to name in an inquiry
Fabric requirements cover the planned use, the quantities in the buyer's own terms, and anything else to settle in writing. Name them in the inquiry, beside the items they belong to, and ask what applies to each item. This site publishes no yardage claim and no fabric claim beyond the family name, and the inquiry should not assume one.
When a list spans more than one planned use, keep the planned uses in separate groups, with the requirements named for each group. A mixed list with no grouping makes the questions harder to place, and a requirement for one group can sit beside an item from another group by mistake.
Colour requirements
Colour words appear in buyer searches for silk fabric, and buyers often arrive with a colour in mind. This site publishes no colour claim for any item. Name the colour requirements in the inquiry, beside the items they belong to, and ask what applies to each item.
Putting the inquiry together
A finished inquiry carries the item list, the quantities in the buyer's own terms beside each item, the destination market for the list as a whole, and anything to settle in writing beside the items it belongs to. Add the planned use for each group and the fabric requirements beside the items they belong to, and keep the list and the questions together in one message.
- The planned use for each group of items
- Fabric requirements, beside the items they belong to
- Quantities in the buyer's own terms, beside each item
- Colour requirements, beside the items they belong to
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Send an inquiry
Send your item list and quantities for a quote. Include fabric requirements beside the items they belong to.