The complete guide by [Hammond Henrietta Hardy Mrs] 1854-1883. [from old catalog]

Author:[Hammond, Henrietta Hardy Mrs], 1854-1883. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Sericulture. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, W. B. Smith & co.
Published: 1883-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

YIII.

REELING AND SPINNING.

Baw Silk and Reeled Silk—The distinction between raw silk and reeled silk is perfectly well defined, and the difference in fact is absolute. It is an erroneous and thoughtless use of language to confound the two commodities under one name.

One bears the same relation to the other as raw cotton does to spun cotton or cotton yarn.

When cotton is first gathered from the stalk it is called seed cotton, as it still has the seed in it. When it has been ginned,—that is, when the seed are extracted,—it is raw cotton. When it has been carded and spun, it is cotton yarn or spun cotton.

When cocoons are first gathered from the branches ^ they are green cocoons, or seed silk. When they are stifled or pierced they are raw 5z7^,—which includes, specifically, dried and pierced cocoons, waste, and floss. When the dried cocoons are reeled, and four to ten strands or filaments have been spun or twisted into one thread or yarn, it is reeled silk or grege; so also is the waste and floss when carded

and spun.

What Heeled Silk Is.—Ben. F. Peixotto, U. S. Consul at Lyons, France, in his official report to the Department of State, at Washington, October

22, 1881, says:—

"Eaw [reeled] silk, that is to say, silk as reeled from the cocoon and imported for the use of our

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