The invention discloses a method for identifying silk types of antique silk fabrics. Three confused antique silk fabrics are grouped; a Na2CO3 solution with a
mass fraction of 0.5% is adopted to carry out degumming; after steps of decolorization and waxy oil removal, silk
fibroin is dissolved by using a cupriethy lenediamine solution, and purification is carried out by using a
dialysis method and an
ultrafiltration method together so as to complete extraction of the silk
fibroin; enzymolysis is carried out by using an in-solution
digestion method; then obtained products are subjected to
mass spectrometry by HPLC-MS / MS; results are compared with a
database to identify the silk types of the three antique silk fabrics. According to the method disclosed by the invention, detection limitation of a general detection
analysis method is overcome, so that even antique silk fabrics in a poor storage state can also be distinguished and identified; the silk types of the antique silk fabrics are identified by adopting a
proteomics method, and in the detecting process, an in-solution
digestion technology is used, so that the experiment operation is simple and convenient; due to adoption of the
proteomics method for identifying the silk types of the antique silk fabrics, the method is high in sensitivity, high in accuracy and small in use quantity of samples.