Saresii Silk

Saresii Silk

fine fabric made of a yarn collected and processed from an insect [1]. There are many such fabrics known in the Universe and traded on the galactic market. Such as Terran Silk, Archa Silk, Attikan Worm Silk are just a few examples. Saresii Silk is known for its softness and the millenia old techniques it is processed and made into fabrics.

It is traded as a Luxury commodity and fetches high prices at the Xchanges. There are four grades / types of Saresii Silk traded : The main difference is the threat diameter and threat count per square centimeter. The unit of measurment is the Denier and as finer the denier the more expensive the silk becomes. Ancient silk is the rarest an most expensive fabric in the known universe because it is silk from the First Age of Knowlege harvested and made by a now forgotten process and harvested from an insect that is no longer known.[2] 
 * Common Saresii Silk
 * Princess Silk
 * Night Silk
 * Ancient Silk
 * A trade bale of Common Silk ( 200 cm x 1000 m) contains 2391 yards, where the yard goes for about 80 Credits ( Bale = 191,280 Credits)
 * A trade bale of Princess Silk (200 cm x 1000m) contains 2391 yards, where the yard sells for about 100 credits (Bale = 293,100)
 * A trade bale of Night Silk (200 cm x 1000m) 250 credits a yard 732,750 Credits
 * A trade bale of Ancient Silk 5000 Credits per yard and more.

[1]the Saresii Silk Bug is not native to Sares but has been brought to Sares during the First Age of Knowledge and altered by selective breeding and DNA tailoring to an industrialized life form that has very little in common from the original lifeform. There used to be a native insect from where the Saresii started to collect strands and make Silk, but it has vanished and is deemed extinct for a very long time.

[2] In 3930, a destroyed and forgotten Saresii Colony of the first Age had been rediscovered. The Saresii colonists were long dead, but a huge sealed warehouse was unearthed during aerchological digs containing a few million bales of Ancient silk in perfect conditiom. There is a finite supply and it is described as woven air in feel and appearance.