Hurst, George H. (George Henry), George Bell & Sons · London ; New York : George Bell & Sons · leaf 15
the ends of thesilk fibre from two or three cocoons, joins these to-gether, and then reels them on the skeleton-wheel of a 4 SILK DYKING. reeling machine, thus making them into skeins. Fig. 4is a drawing of an Italian silk reeling machine. Whenone cocoon is nearly unwound another takes its place,as… … Fig. 4. kept apart for reeling into what is called Organzinesilk, which owing to its greater strength is used forthe warp of the silk fabrics into which it is woven.The poorer qualities of cocoons are reeled into tramsilk, which is used for the weft. It is customaryalways to reel two fibres side by…
Dyes and dyeing · Silk
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