Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . any verbaldescription. A are the warp threads, of whiclionly every tenth one is raised to allow the shuttleto pass, but they are all raised in regular succes-sion, so that the weaving is quite uniform through-out ; B are the weft threads ; and Cis the selvedge,which is formed on each side of the piece of stuff. by the regular method of plain weaving—that is, byraising every other warp thread for the jiassage ofthe weft. The figure shows a ten-thread satintwill, but there are various others made, such lus afive, a six, a seven, and
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . any verbaldescription. A are the warp threads, of whiclionly every tenth one is raised to allow the shuttleto pass, but they are all raised in regular succes-sion, so that the weaving is quite uniform through-out ; B are the weft threads ; and Cis the selvedge,which is formed on each side of the piece of stuff. by the regular method of plain weaving—that is, byraising every other warp thread for the jiassage ofthe weft. The figure shows a ten-thread satintwill, but there are various others made, such lus afive, a six, a seven, and an eight-thread lowest satin twill that can be judduced is afour-thrc!id, which is sometinies called the .satinettwill. The term satin is rarely applied to otherthan silk textiles (see ). A cotton, and some-times even a woollen, fabric woven in the waydescribed is called sateen. Satin-biiMl. See lidWEu bird. Satin .Spar. See .\i;.v(;onite, SatillWOod. This is |ierliai)s the most valu-able of the light-coloured furniture woods. Twokinds of satinwood are known iu commerce, both being somewhat similar in api)earance, althoughthey do not appear to be closely allied kind is obtained from a modeiiite-sized de-ciduous tree {Oh/oroxyloii sirictoiia), growing inCentral and South India, including Ceylon. It isallied to the mahogany-
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