Turner, Annabell · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 99
a number of pieces of silk to discoversome which are pure silk, some weighted bothways, some weighted only one way, and if pos-sible some which show weighted threads used in 86 THE STUDY OF FABRICS a desig-n when the large part is pure silk orvice versa. Wash silks are often part cotton. Perhapsthe… … Before After Charmeuse Messaline Pure Silks Before and After Burning Treat a sample -with concentrated hydro-chloric acid (HCl). Silk will dissolve muchmore quickly than any other fiber., Other silks have been found to be adulter-ated with linen, also. This is not common, andmay be detected by…
Textile fabrics · Clothing and dress · Textile industry
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