Silk waste
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silk-waste-277-1087810
title:
Silk waste
text:
Silk waste includes all kinds of raw silk which may be unwindable, and therefore unsuited to the throwing process. Before the introduction of machinery applicable to the spinning of silk waste, the refuse from cocoon reeling, and also from silk winding, which is now used in producing spun silk fabrics, was nearly all destroyed as being useless, with the exception of that which could be hand-combed and spun by means of the distaff and spinning wheel, a method which is still practised by some of t
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description:
Short lengths of silk, as from broken cocoons, which are spun like staple fibers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_waste
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date modified:
2022-11-14T23:05:42Z
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