dupionvara

Also known as dupion, dupion fabric, silk dupioni, doupioni, doupioni silk

thumb|Dupioni fabric. thumb|Dress in brown dupioni, 1940s/early 1950s Sweden. Dupioni (also referred to as douppioni, doupioni or dupion) is a plain weave silk fabric, produced using fine yarn in the warp and uneven yarn reeled from two or more entangled cocoons in the weft. This creates tightly woven yardage with a highly-lustrous surface and a crisp hand. It is similar to shantung, but slightly thicker, heavier, and with a greater slub (cross-sectional irregularity) count. In Japan a cocoon containing more than one silkworm is called .