Silk is nearly impossible to sew because it's so thin it shifts constantly on the machine, and patterns like plackets and florals must align perfectly on a single piece. Factories avoid it because the handling rules are brutal: keep it clean, avoid heat, move it fast. Only god-tier pattern makers can pull it off.
A general theme you'll see in a lot of these factory tours— silk is pretty much one of the hardest fabrics you'll ever have to work with. The placket over here lines up perfectly with the left part of the torso, so you can see that actually the design overlaps. And the right of the torso, you can see that over here, the base of the flower, and over here, the top of the flower aligned perfectly, and it goes all the way down that way. So they did this just for one piece. This is like god-tier pattern-making work. It's because it's so thin and it moves around so much on the sewing machine. Whatever it is in the They have to account that it can't get dirty. They can't leave it in a certain area for too long. It can't be in the heat for too long. All of these different factors that make silk very challenging to work with, and not every single factory is willing to take on that challenge when you're talking about real silk.
