10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VEGETABLE SILK»
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The textile fibres of commerce: A handbook on the ...
Vegetable Silk (Beaumontia grawliflora, Apocynacea?). — A climbing plant
growing wild in the Himalayas and other parts of India. The seed hairs or
plumose fibres are from half an inch to an inch long. The fibres are easily
detached from the ...
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Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Useful ...
silk, cotton or milk weed, derived from the milky substance which they contain,
and of a kind of vegetable silk or cotton connected with the seed in their pods.
Leaving for the investigation of the chemists the medicinal virtues of the roots and
...
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Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Useful ...
silk, cotton or milk weed, derived from the milky substance which they contain,
and of a kind of vegetable silk or cotton connected with the seed in thgir pods.
Leaving for the investigation of the chemists the medicinal virtues of the roots and
...
Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, Albany, New York, 1814
This vegetable silk may now be used, without any farther preparation, instead of
feathers and horse hair, for beads, cushions, coverlets to beds, bolsters and
mattresses. From eight to nine pounds of it, which occupy the space of from five to
six ...
Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, 1809
This vegetable silk may now be used, without any farther preparation, instead of
feathers and horse hair, for beads, cushions, coverlets to beds, bolsters and
mattresses. From eight to nine pounds of it, which occupy the space of from five to
six ...
6
The Microscopy of Technical Products
VEGETABLE SILK.1 The seed hairs of plants belonging to the orders Apocymcea
and Asclepiadacea, characterized by their fine silky luster and their white, yellow,
or red color, are known as vegetable silk. Although these fibers present a very ...
Thomas Franz Hanausek, 1916
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Textiles: A Monthly Technical Journal
The more common species_are C'. barometz, G, chanrisgoi and C. menziesii. Fig
. 31. Fiber of the Strophantus, Enlarg. 56. Fir. sz. Fig. as. Fig. 32. Vegetable silk (
Beaumontia grandiflora), Enlarg. 56. “This plant furnishes the best seed hairs yet
...
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The Farmers' Cabinet, and American Herd-book
Vegetable Silk. To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. Sir, — Can any of your
readers give us information respecting the vegetable silk which is at present all
the rage in Paris] It was first imported by Mons. Pary, and is said to be an
excellent ...
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The Farmer's Cabinet, and American Herd Book
Vegetable Silk. To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. Sir, — Can any of your
readers give us information respecting the vegetable silk which is at present all
the rage in Paris ? It was first imported by Mons. Pary, and is said to be an
excellent ...
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Philosophical Magazine, Comprehending the Various Branches ...
Other mixtures'may be used for different kinds of stuffs ;_ but it hasbeen observed
that the cloth is much stronger when the vegetable silk is employed for the woof
rather than for the warp. Many colours have been applied to such cloth with ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VEGETABLE SILK»
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Textiles made from Agave fibres
Textile fibres obtained from various kinds of the Agave species can be used in making vegetable silk, mats, as fillers, and even can be used as bio-composites, ... «Fibre2fashion.com, Apr 14»
