Kinne, Helen · New York: The Macmillan company · leaf 146
hey are. Silk is a most perfectfiber; and does not haveto be prepared as much as cotton or wool. Sometimesit is twisted a very little for the warp. The fillingthread has a queer name, too. It is called the tram,and need not be of so good a quality of silk as the strongwarp, nor so tightly twisted.… … Courtesy of Cheney Bros. Fig. 78. — Silk winding. 134 CLOTHING AND HEALTH qualities, however, are dyed after the silk is woven intothe piece. Silk is dyed by dipping the skeins or yardsof silk in great vats of dye. For dyeing, the coal-tarproducts (aniline dyes) are used. Did you know thatcoal…
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