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Any form of thread may be finished with a dull or lustrous 

 surface, in accordance with the process employed. 



Mercerized thread has received a treatment giving it a 

 surface resembling that of silk. 



The samples in this exhibit were presented by the Clark 

 Thread Company. 



78. Darning cotton of various colors, 48 yards on a spool. 



79. Luster-finished crochet yarn on bobbin. 



80. Crochet yarn of various colors, 100 yards on a spool. 



81. Sample card of same. 



82. Luster-finished crochet yarn of various colors. 



83. Sample card of same. 



84. Spools for holding cotton thread. 



85. Spool of 1,200 yards of cotton thread, more than 5 mile. 



86. Cotton thread of various colors, 200 yards on a spool. 



87. Sample card of same. 



88. Cotton thread of natural gray color. 



89. The same, boiled preparatory to bleaching. 



90. A Swift, an instrument used in winding thread to form hanks. 



91. Shuttle bobbins. 



92. Cotton thread after first treatment with bleaching fluid. 



93. The same after second treatment with bleaching fluid. 



94. The same, washed after being bleached. 



95. The same, fully prepared for being spooled. 



96. The same, on spool. 



97. The same, on bobbin and tube. 



98. The same, on bobbin and cone. 



99. The same, in various stages of the black dyeing process. 



100. The same, dyed black. 



101. Black thread on bobbins, and a spool of 200 yards. 



102. Cotton web. 



103. Cotton thread boiled in preparation for dyeing in various colors. 



104. The same, dyed yellow. 



105. Mercerized crochet yarn, natural color. 



106. The same, bleached. 



107. Crochet yarn with luster finish, of various colors. 



108-111. Cotton lint prepared for the making of gun-cotton, which is tri-nitro- 

 cellulose. For its manufacture, the purest form of cellulose is desired, and 

 purified cotton is about the best material of the kind obtainable. It is sup- 

 plied in the form of waste material from the manufacturers of cotton goods. 

 Presented by the Massassoit Manufacturing Company, of Fall River, 

 Massachusetts. Because of its dangerously explosive nature, finished gun- 

 cotton is not here exhibited. 



108-109. Samples of the crude lint. 



Iio-iii. The same, washed and bleached, ready for nitrating. 



1 12-134. Pyralin, a celluloid-like product. Like gun-cotton, its manufacture 



