Habutai

Japanese "soft, thick, strongly ribbed" kabe habutai "", formerly a high-priced material for robes

Habutai is a Japanese silk in taffeta weave .

The silk fabric is medium-weight and has a taffeta-like feel. Mostly it is produced in high quality. Habutai is finer than Toile and heavier than Pongee .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Alfons Hofer: Textile and Model Lexicon . 7th edition, Volume 1, Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, keyword “Habutai”. ISBN 3-87150-518-8 .