The Canadian farm annual for 1880 published in Connection with the Weekly Mail (1880)
Weekly Mail, Toronto · Toronto, The Mail 88 p. illus. 22 cm · leaf 81
ferent kinds of silk used in all ancientand modern work are called floss, crochet-twist,purse-silk, Dacca, Berlin, three-cord, and sew-ings. Floss appears to have been the silk us-ually employed in the antique work ; it was laidin long or short perpendicular lines of variousshades of colour, and… … Fig. 7. Fig, 8. of figures, pavements in squares of marble, or the canopy of some sacred subject. Ifsplit very fine, floss was used both for flesh and hair of figures.~^ Crochet-twist is a silk of three piles ; it can be used in themanner described above for floss, and the perpendicular linesheld…
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