Silk; its origin, culture, and manufacture; . 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 seve
Silk; its origin, culture, and manufacture; . 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. 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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