Silk; its origin, culture, and manufacture; . TwiSTiNG Corticelli Silk. 35 tendants, standing in heavy clogs (big shoes withwooden soles two inches thick), turn the silk on the sticksat intervals until the gum is removed. After the silk isdyed it is put into a steam finisher, a device lookinglike a long, narrow box with a cover opening on the side,set upright on top of an iron cylinder. The hanks of silkare placed upon two pins in the steam chest, the coverfastened, and the live steam rushes in around the CoRTiCELLi Water Stkkic;ikk. This brightens the silk, giving it the lustrous, glos
Silk; its origin, culture, and manufacture; . TwiSTiNG Corticelli Silk. 35 tendants, standing in heavy clogs (big shoes withwooden soles two inches thick), turn the silk on the sticksat intervals until the gum is removed. After the silk isdyed it is put into a steam finisher, a device lookinglike a long, narrow box with a cover opening on the side,set upright on top of an iron cylinder. The hanks of silkare placed upon two pins in the steam chest, the coverfastened, and the live steam rushes in around the CoRTiCELLi Water Stkkic;ikk. This brightens the silk, giving it the lustrous, glossyappearance noticeable in all Corticelli goods. The silkcomes from this machine quite stiff, and the hanks arenext placed on the stringer, which twists the hankfirst in one direction and then in the other, as one wouldring out water. There is no water in the silk, however,but this action makes the silk smooth and soft. Many ofthe machines used by this company are of their own inven-tion, patented and controlled by them, which, togetherwith the experience of over seventy-three years in silk 36 manufacturing, enables them to produce silk goods ofunequaled quality and of exceptional luster and the large skeins the silk is again wound on tobobbins, and then spooled, balled, coned, braided, orskeined, according to the kind of silk and the use forwhich it is intended. Rows of girls, seated at the rapidlyrevolving spindles of the spooling machines,change the big bobbins to 100-yard spools of KA
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