For classy garments and bedding, silk charmeuse remains a popular material. It was, however, during the 20th century that American corporations developed a variety of synthetic fabrics, one of the primary goals of which was to replace silk, which is expensive and complicated to make.
Charmeuse is one of the most fiber-dense silk fabrics available, which makes it more expensive than chiffon and other lightweight silk fabrics. Silk is already one of the most expensive fabrics due to modern technologies’ inability to enhance the efficiency of sericulture.
