Dyeing Silks
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Number VII in Charles Pellew's series on dyeing, written for The Craftsman in 1909, serves as an introduction to silk before the dyeing methods are taken up. It covers the varieties of silk (cultivated, wild/tussore, spider silk and pinna silk), a history of silk from China to Europe and Virginia, and 1900s production and import figures. It then describes the stages of silk production: raising cocoons, reeling, throwing (organzine and tram), degumming, and the contrast between piece dyeing and skein dyeing with acid dyes and boiled-off liquor. The actual skein-dyeing methods are left to the next article.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1909
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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