Which property resulted from Byzantine silk's secret weighting?

💡 Explanation

The weighting process, using metallic salts and other substances increased the apparent value of the silk, masking poor quality leading to fiber damage because the salts embrittled the fabric, subjecting the weaves increased seam slippage creating weak points, therefore seam slippage, rather than uptake dye properties were affected.

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