Dupioni Dupioni Dupioni (also referred to as Douppioni or Dupion) is a plain weave crisp type of silk fabric, produced by using fine thread in the warp and uneven thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons in the weft. This creates tightly-woven yardage with a highly-lustrous surface. It is similar to shantung, but slightly thicker, heavier, and with a greater slub (cross-wise irregularity) count. Dupioni is often woven with differing colors of threads scattered through the warp and weft. This technique gives the fabric an iridescent effect, similar to but not as pronounced as shot silk taffeta. Dupioni can be
The Fabric of Reality The Fabric of Reality The Fabric of Reality is a 1997 book by the physicist David Deutsch. The text was initially published on August 1, 1997 by Viking Adult and Deutsch wrote a follow-up book entitled "The Beginning of Infinity", which was published in 2011. The book expands upon his views of quantum mechanics and its implications for understanding reality. This interpretation, which he calls the "multiverse" hypothesis, is one of a four-strand Theory of Everything (TOE). His theory of everything is (weakly) emergentist rather than reductive. It aims not at the reduction of everything to particle physics, but rather