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Title: Silk; its origin, culture, and manufacture;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sheffeld, Charles Arthur, b. 1873
Subjects: Silk Silk industry Sericulture
Publisher: Florence, Mass., The Corticelli silk mills
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Reeling Corticelh Silk into Skeins to Send to theDye House. Corticelli Spool Silk. The accompanying illustrationshows a young lady spooling ounce spools of white Corti-celli Machine Twist. The balling machine is equally inter-esting, as one watches sixteen empty wooden spools trans-formed as if by magic, in less than three minutes, intosixteen symmetrical balls of Corticelli Crochet Silk. Then come the labeling and the boxing, and the goodsare taken to the stock room, where huge shelves, arrangedin tiers, are filled high with silk of every description,from the very finest 000 to the coarsest size, and fromthe tiny spools of Corticelli Buttonhole Twist to the bigounce spools of Corticelli Machine Twist. From the stock 37
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room are shipped each day, to the eight wholesale citysalesrooms of this company, case after case, packed snuglywith neat boxes all filled with spools or skeins of silk,which find their way into the stores of nearly every mer-chant in the land. The various uses made of silk are truly wonderful.Some of the ones not generally known are here given.The electrician uses it for insulating wires for the incan-descent lamps, for filaments within the same, carbonizingit for this purpose ; the surgeon to tie arteries and sewtogether cuts in the flesh, and to cover silk cloth withgum-tragacanth for adhesive and non-poisonous plastersfor wounds and abrasions ; the dentistto clean between the teeth and tie thepellicle in filling ; the book maker totie his little fancy booklets and cards ; surveyor to e the the d the to stiffen his rod by

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