15 [ 175 3 



Particular distases. ' Page. 



1. The Passis, - - - - " . " ' - 133 



2. The Lusette, or Clairette, - - - * - - - 134 



3. The Yellows, .-----.. 134 



4. The Muscardine, ------- 135 



5. The Tripes, or Mort Blanc, ------ 135 



CHAPTER XV 



Preparaiimis for reeling Silk: 



1. How to take off the flos from the cocoons, , . - . 135 



2. Separation of the various qualities of cocoons, - - - 136 



3. On heating water for reeling by steam, with a cut, - - - 138 



4. Utility of the thermometer to ascertain the heat of the water, - 139 



5. On killing the chrysalis in the cocoons, by baking and steaming, 139, 141 



6. Of royal, perforated cocoons, and soufflons, - - - . 140 

 Mode of reeling silk from the best cocoons, . . . . . 142 

 Of disbanding the silk from the reel, tying it in skeins, preparation of the silk 



foruse, ----..--. 150 



Doubling machine, with a cut, ------- 151 



0f the preparation of the waste silk, spinning inferior qualities, - • 152-3 



" of the silk to make organzine, - . . . 151_2 



Notice of the warping machine, - - - - - 152 

 Explanation of the plates: 



1. Silk reel of Piedmont, and various utensils for rearing silkworms,' - 155-6 



2. Indigo ci'adle, - - - - - - - - 157 



3. Frames of split rattans to feed worms on, - - - - 157 



4. Sholl's improved silk-loom, -----. 157 



5. Winding reel, -------. 155 



6. Throwsting machine, to make organzine silk, - - . 159 



7. Shenton's Engine for tramming silk, ----- I6I 



8. Richard's improvement in the silk weavers' di'aw-boy, * - 164 



9. Loom for weaving figured silk, - - - - ' - 166 

 Notices of various machines, and recent improvements in Silk machinery: 



1. Thompson's iinproved ribbon loom; French ribbon looms, - - 172 



2. Jacquart's loom, - - ' - - - - - 173 



3. Le Brun's loom, .--.... y^^ 



4. English patents for improvements in Silk machinery, - - - 174 



5. De Bergue's power loom, --.--. 175 



6. Kendall's domestic power loom, - - - . . 175 



7. Fanshaw's apparatus for spinning, doubling, and twisting, or throwing 



silk, with a cut, .-.-.-. i7g 



8. Sadler's improved power loom, . . - - . 177 



9. American winding, doubling, and twisting appai'atus, - - - 178 



10. Other recent improvements in silk weaving, - - - - 178 



1 1. Method of preventing the watering of silk, without the use of a knee 



roll, - - 179 



Extracts from minutes of evidence before the House of Commons, on the Silk 



trade and Silk manufacture, ------ 180 



Appendix on dying Silk, - - - - . - - 182 



Translation from a German treatise on dying Silk, - . - . 203 



