Raw silk Sentence Examples

raw silk
  • The exports which come next in value are opium, wood-oil, hides, beans, cotton yarn and raw silk.

    1
    0
  • Handlooms and small spinTextiles ning establishments have, in the silk industry, given place to large establishments with steam looms. The production of raw silk at least tripled itself between 1875 and 1900, and the value of the silks woven in Italy, estimated in 1890 to be 2,200,000, is now, on account of the development of the export trade calculated to be almost 4,000,000.

    0
    0
  • The diminution was due to a smaller exportation of raw silk and oil.

    0
    0
  • Live-stock and agricultural products are exported; the chief imports are wood and raw silk.

    0
    0
  • Altogether raw silk and silk yarn to an annual value exceeding 1-1 millions sterling are exported from Russia.

    0
    0
  • The object of crossing (croissage) is to round, smooth and condense the separate filaments of each set into one strand, and as the surface of the filaments is gummy and adhesive it is found on drying that they have agglutinated into a compact single fibre of raw silk.

    0
    0
  • The reel to which the raw silk is led consists of a light six-armed frame, enclosed within a wooden casing having a glass frame in front, the enclosure being heated with steam-pipes.

    0
    0
  • He receives the raw silk in hanks as it is taken from the reel of the filature, and putting it on a light reel of a similar construction, called the swifts, FIG.

    0
    0
  • According to the qualities of raw silk used and the throwing operations undergone the principal classes of thrown silk are - (1) " singles," which consist of a single strand of twisted raw silk made up of the filaments of eight to ten cocoons; (2) tram or weft thread, consisting of two or three strands of raw silk not twisted before doubling and only lightly spun (this is soft, flossy and comparatively weak); (3) organzine, the thread used for warps, made from two and rarely three twisted strands spun in the direction contrary to that in which they are separately twisted.

    0
    0
  • In 1885 the production of raw silk was about 300,000 111, while in 1905 it reached 750,000 lb, an annual production which is still maintained.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • The term silk waste includes all kinds of raw silk which may be unwindable, and therefore unsuited to the throwing process.

    0
    0
  • The town is one of the most important markets for raw silk and cocoons in the south of France, and the Gardon supplies power to numerous silkmills.

    0
    0
  • The same holds good with regard to all other stuffs, the prices of wool (provisionally established at the earlier fairs of south-western Russia) being ultimately settled at Nizhniy, as well as those of raw silk.

    0
    0
  • Cocoons and raw silk valued at 316,140 were exported in 1906-1907.

    0
    0
  • I use raw silk and chenille with gold threads and lots of color; often strips of fabric too, " she explained.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • The quantity of raw silk raised in the last season was very little more than was raised in the previous year.

    0
    0
  • I use raw silk and chenille with gold threads and lots of color; often strips of fabric too, she explained.

    0
    0
  • Ingredients include organic calendula blossom tea and petals, organic olive, coconut, palm, avocado and jojoba oil, raw silk protein, and essential oil.

    0
    0
  • The raw silk is processed into different types of silk fabrics.

    0
    0
  • Aristotle's vague knowledge of the worm may have been derived from information acquired by the Greeks with Alexander the Great; but long before this time raw silk must have begun to be imported at Cos, where it was woven into a gauzy tissue, the famous Coa vestis, which revealed rather than clothed the form.

    0
    1
    Advertisement
  • Towards the beginning of the Christian era raw silk began to form an important and costly item among the prized products of the East which came to Rome.

    1
    1
  • Under favourable conditions it is estimated that i r kilogrammes of fresh cocoons give 1 kilogramme of raw silk for commerce, and about the same quantity for waste spinning purposes.

    0
    1
  • This assortment is of great consequence for the success of the reeling operations, as uniformity of quality and evenness and regularity of fibre are the most valuable features in raw silk.

    0
    1
  • The object of reeling is to bring together the filaments (bave) from two or more (generally four or five, but sometimes up to twenty) cocoons, and to form them into one continuous, uniform, and regular strand, which constitutes the " raw silk " of commerce.

    0
    1
  • To do this, the natural gum of the cocoons which holds the filaments together must be softened, the ends of the filaments of the required number of cocoons must be caught, and means must be taken to unwind and lay these filaments together, so as to form a single uniform rounded strand of raw silk.

    0
    1
    Advertisement
  • In this way a continuous uniform fibre or strand of raw silk of indefinite length is produced.

    0
    1
  • With comparatively simple appliances, on the other hand, a skilled reeler, with trained eye and delicate touch, can produce raw silk of remarkably smooth and even quality.

    0
    1