Textile fabrics and their preparation for dyeing : with numerous engravings and diagrams (1906)
Hummel, J. J. (John James), -1902, Hasluck, Paul N. (Paul Nooncree), 1854-1931, Foster, A. R · Philadelphia : David McKay · leaf 53
49 SILK. is a clear, colourless, gelatinous liquid. According to Duseigneur, this is surrounded by a layer of another sub- stance, colourless when the silk is white, coloured when it is yellow, and which possibly constitutes the silk-gum to be alluded to subsequently. The whole is enclosed in a… … Fig. 11.— Section of Silk-bag-. proportion which corresponds somewhat to the loss sus- tained by raw silk during the operation of " boiling-off." Arrived in the capillary tube at A (Fig. 10), the silk substance solidifies, and issues from the spinneret in the form of a double fibre, as represented…
Dyes and dyeing
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