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Mr D'Homergue divides the raw silk into three quali- 

 ties, graduated according to their different degrees of 

 fineness. These different qualities, before they undergo 

 the operations that are to fit them for the loom, are dis- 

 tinguished as first, second and third qualities beginning 

 with the finest. They assume other names as soon as 

 they have been prepared and made fit for the manufac- 

 turer. Then they have ceased to be raw silk, and they 

 are called singles, organzine and tram silks, according 

 to their different degrees of fineness, and the manner in 

 which they have been passed through a certain machine 

 called a mill. 



Singles (called in French le poil) that is to say, hair 

 silk, is made of the first quality of raw silk, consequently 

 the finest, as the name implies. It is made of a single 

 thread. This silk is used for the woof of the lighter 

 stuffs, the warp which is made of cotton thread. 



Organzine (in French organsins] is the next in fine- 

 ness. It is employed in weaving to make the warp of 

 those stuffs, that are made entirely of silk. 



Tram silk (in French La frame) which means woof 

 silk, is thickest of the three and is the thread of which 

 is made the woof of silk stuffs. 



Of the three qualities of raw silk of which these differ- 

 ent threads are made, the second, that which makes 



ergue, from the refuse cocoons. I take this opportunity to acknowl- 

 edge the fairness and liberality of these gentlemen in introduc- 

 ing me to every department of the silk business, and for the polite 

 attentions I received from them during a visit of two or three days 

 to their city. ED. 



