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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 tram-e) 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 

 organzine, is the most in demand in foreign markets. 

 It was in extracting the silk to form this quality that 

 Mr D'Hornergue 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'Hornergue 

 makes use of the excellent paragraph from scripture, 

 6 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" 



