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organzine, is the most in demand in foreign markets. 

 It was in extracting the silk to form this quality that 

 Mr D'Homorgue discovered the superior fineness of the 

 American silk, by finding that it required a much greater 

 quantity of threads to produce the different qualities of 

 raw silk above-mentioned than the cocoons of Europe. 



In regard to the imperfect cocoons, Mr D'Homergue 

 makes use of the excellent paragraph from scripture, 

 ' gather up the fragments that nothing remain.' He says 

 there are a great variety of these, whose threads are not 

 susceptible of being prepared for the manufacture of silk 

 stuffs. They are called in French chiques. The mate- 

 rial extracted from these cocoons is employed in the 

 manufacture of sewing silk. This silk is of two kinds, 

 each of which has its first and second quality. The 

 name of sewing silk is exclusively appropriated to the 

 finest of these two species, the other is called cordonnet 

 or twist. 



The sewing silk, so called, is employed in the sewing 

 of silk stuffs, the cordonnet is used for working button- 

 holes, and working woollen and cotton stuffs. The one 

 is for the use of tailors, the other for milliners and man- 

 tau-makers. Tailors employ it only in the more delicate 

 works. The raw silk for these purposes is extracted from 

 the bad cocoons, reeled and wound into skeins, according 

 to its different degrees of fineness, in the same manner 

 and by the same process (varying only in details) as that 

 intended to be used for the manufacture of fine stuffs. 

 It is sold in market under the name of raw silk, but does 

 not bear so high a price as the other. 



There is a loose, furzy substance on the outside of the 



