Hodge Products Inc. in Roseland Virginia the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains is an American company specializing in accessories for woodwind musical instruments and has been in business since 1992. The manufacturing and wholesale side of the company creates silk swabs for cleaning out woodwind and brass instruments. All Hodge silk swabs are made from pure silk and come in five beautiful colors. Silk is very absorbent - soaking up water quickly and thoroughly. Most uniquely silk is also very compressible making it possible to pull through instruments with large variations in bore size. In addition silk is lint free. The compressibility of the silk fabric and the shape of the Hodge swab makes it virtually impossible for it to get stuck in the instrument.