thrown silk

American  

noun

1. raw silk that has been reeled and twisted into yarn.

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Etymology

Origin of thrown silk

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

Sometimes a number of strands of raw silk are twisted into a coarse thread, thereby forming "thrown silk."

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

Although the silk manufacture, as we have seen, was introduced into this country by the Huguenot artizans, the price of thrown silk was so great that it interfered very considerably with its progress.

From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel

The manufacture of thrown silk is chiefly carried on at Macclesfield, Congleton, and in the West of England.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 583, December 29, 1832 by Various

The river furnishes good water-power, and the town has various manufactures, including stoves and ranges, boilers, bar iron, rivets, steel castings, rock drills, air compressors, silk hose and underwear, organzine or thrown silk, and overalls.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

This description of thrown silk is used in the shuttle or transverse threads of a piece of silk on the loom.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 583, December 29, 1832 by Various