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 201
ilk dyeing and finishing. — Silk is dyed in the yarn or inthe piece. Thrown silk is sent to the dyer, who boils out the 180 SHELTER AND CLOTHING gum, which is about 25 per cent of the weight of the silk.Some manufacturers, in order to make as much profit as pos-sible, load the thrown silk before it… … Courtesy of Cheney Brothers.Fig. 84.—Weaving. Primitive hand loom, to action of air and light these chemicals rot the silk fiber andthe filament crumbles away. In order to overcome the lossafter the degumming of the silk, all kinds of processes havebeen used. Weighting is added not only in the…
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