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Clouding :: Clouding (n.) A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

Fibroin :: Fibroin (n.) A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass..

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

Taffety :: Taffety (n.) A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times..

Ribbon :: Ribbon (n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes..

Byssus :: Byssus (n.) A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk..

Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..

Cordonnet :: Cordonnet (n.) Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc..

Stag :: Staffman (n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.

Farandams :: Farandams (n.) A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair.

Calender :: Calender (n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc..

Raw :: Raw (superl.) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.

Armozine :: Armozine (n.) A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical..

Cappadine :: Cappadine (n.) A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag..

Frizette :: Frizette (n.) A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

Haberdasher :: Haberdasher (n.) A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc..

Court-plaster :: Court-plaster (n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin..

Tussah Silk :: Tussah silk () The silk fiber itself.

Pane :: Pane (n.) One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown..

Sericin :: Sericin (n.) A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.

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