Shelter and clothing; a textbook of the household arts (1920)
Kinne, Helen, 1861-1917. [from old catalog], Cooley, Anna M. (Anna Maria), b. 1874, joint author · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 197
or ten pounds. Thehanks go first to the throwster. Silk throwing consists ofsoaking the skeins to remove some gum in order to wind thesilk from the skeins. The skeins of raw silk are placed on 176 SHELTER AND CLOTHING reels and unwound on spools. A skein is made up of from75 to 200,000 yards of… … Courtesy of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.Fig. 80. —Some hanks of reeled silk. woof yarn is called tram. It is usually not as good aquahty of silk, and is only loosely twisted. Singles issometimes used for warp and woof in goods dyed in the pieceor after weaving. Singles is the thread of raw silkwound…
Home Economics · Textile industry and fabrics
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