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beginning at the end cut. It is then twisted together, 

 three threaded and knit into stockings. 



The imperfect cocoons, and all that will not reel, are 

 boiled, carded, spun and manufactured in all respects 

 like floss, but they make nicer and finer cloth. 



The Connecticut sewing 'sil k doesnot bring a higher 

 price than the reeled silk as it comes from my reel. As 

 there is a loss of one half of the weight in the preparation 

 of sewing silk, it is evident that to reel it properly and 

 sell it for raw silk would bring a hundred per cent more 

 profit. 



(SEE PLATE.) 



This is an improvement on the Silk Reel of Pied- 

 mont. The improvement consists in the simplicity of the 

 machinery, compared with that of the Piedmontese Reel, 

 the operation of both being exactly the same. A, is a 

 cvlinder eight inches diameter and eight in length. B, a 

 circular groove, half an inch deep, which has a sweep of 

 six inches. To lay out this groove, a strip of paper six 

 inches wide and of the exact length of the cylinder's cir- 

 cumference, is doubled, and with the compass a sweep is 

 made from the middle of one end of the doubled paper to 

 the edge and thence to the middle of the other end ; the 

 paper is then turned ove* and the same sweep made on 

 the other side, in an opposite direction. The paper is 

 then laid on the cylinder, and the groove marked upon it 

 for cutting. Thus on each side of the cylinder the 

 groove will form a semi-circle meeting in the middle, and 

 will thus cause a peculiar motion to the traversing bar, (C, 



