The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . eaned by running from onebobbin to another, through a slit that will scrape off any lumpor nib. Now the raw Silk thread is ready to be doubled, or madestronger and larger. Imagine now that the bobbins of Silk areSilk cocoons, and that the reeling begin anew, save that the reelis another bobbin, for the thread is dry and does not need a each thread leaves its bobbin to join the cable, it passesthrough a faller, which falls down and stops the machine if itsthread breaks. Now
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . eaned by running from onebobbin to another, through a slit that will scrape off any lumpor nib. Now the raw Silk thread is ready to be doubled, or madestronger and larger. Imagine now that the bobbins of Silk areSilk cocoons, and that the reeling begin anew, save that the reelis another bobbin, for the thread is dry and does not need a each thread leaves its bobbin to join the cable, it passesthrough a faller, which falls down and stops the machine if itsthread breaks. Now the doubled or tripled thread is twistedon a spinning-frame, and as it leaves the frame, is wound againon flying bobbins. The Silk-throwster is at liberty to vary hisfilaments, strands and twists, to please his own ideas of either 360 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. worth or trade, and an ordinary three-cord sewing silk threadmay be composed of nearly two hundred of the original Silk-worm filaments. It is now ready for the dyer. What peculiarity has Silk? It is a remarkable absorbant of water, and will take up from. Fig. 134. CONDITIONING APPARATUS. g *> CODO c »-t CO *lW o CO p C w co
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