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21 Jhabla
An embroidered child's shirt in Surat, India. The fabric is woven on hand looms in a satin weave, piece-dyed black, and has yellow spots and white figures embroidered with floss silk. -
22 Soie Platte
French floss silk embroidery yarn used largely for tapestry work as well as embroidery. Obtainable in hanks only in many counts and colours. -
23 Bufta
A silk warp and cotton weft fabric made at Dacca, on hand looms. The warp is Muga silk and the weft is spun from native-grown cotton. Plain weave, and often embroidered with silk floss. -
24 Carbaso
A light plain weave silk material, made from the silk waste yarns spun from the silk floss, obtained from cocoons after all the good thread has been reeled. Also sometimes termed Laffis. -
25 Cocoon
The envelope of raw silk spun by the silkworm and in which it encloses itself when in the pupa state. About 10 per cent of the totalled weight can be reeled off in a single filament, the length averaging about 300 yards. The outer layers of the cocoons are used for floss or spun silk. -
26 Calotropis Gigantea
This plant yields a fibre about 1-in. to 1-in. in length, which is a form of vegetable silk and known in India as Mudar floss. It also gives a bast fibre of superior quality, resembling flax in appearance and strength. The plant also yields gutta percha varnish, dye and medicinal substances.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Calotropis Gigantea
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27 Kapok
This is a white fibre obtained from the Erisdendron anfractuosum, a tree grown in the East Indies. Kapok is of no use for spinning, and is principally used as a stuffing material for pillows, etc. It is very soft, smooth, light in weight, and very buoyant in water. The floss obtained from the so-called red silk cotton tree is also incorrectly called Kapok (see Bombax cotton)
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Floss silk — Floss Floss (?; 195), n. [It. floscio flabby, soft, fr. L. fluxus flowing, loose, slack. See {Flux}, n.] 1. (Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called {silk}. [1913 Webster] 2. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
floss silk — noun : floss I 1; also : floss (as for embroidery) of silk … Useful english dictionary
floss silk — noun Raw silk, having the appearance of cotton wool, once used as dental floss … Wiktionary
floss silk — n. silk that has been twisted and is used in embroidery; dental floss … English contemporary dictionary
floss-silk tree — thorny flowering tree of the mallow family ( Malvaceae), native to South America but cultivated as an ornamental in other regions. It grows to a height of about 15 metres (50 feet). The large pink flowers yield a vegetable silk used in… … Universalium
floss-silk tree — noun : a thorny deciduous tree (Chorisia speciosa) of the family Bombacaceae that is native to Brazil and Argentina but often cultivated in warm regions for its large solitary pink flowers which appear while the tree is leafless and that is the… … Useful english dictionary
floss — [flôs, fläs] n. [earlier also flosh < Fr floche, downy, woolly (in soie floche, floss silk), ult. < L floccus: see FLOCCUS] 1. the rough silk covering a silkworm s cocoon 2. the short, downy waste fibers of silk 3. a soft, loosely twisted… … English World dictionary
Floss — (?; 195), n. [It. floscio flabby, soft, fr. L. fluxus flowing, loose, slack. See {Flux}, n.] 1. (Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called {silk}. [1913 Webster] 2. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Floss thread — Floss Floss (?; 195), n. [It. floscio flabby, soft, fr. L. fluxus flowing, loose, slack. See {Flux}, n.] 1. (Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called {silk}. [1913 Webster] 2. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
floss yarn — Floss Floss (?; 195), n. [It. floscio flabby, soft, fr. L. fluxus flowing, loose, slack. See {Flux}, n.] 1. (Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called {silk}. [1913 Webster] 2. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
silk — Floss Floss (?; 195), n. [It. floscio flabby, soft, fr. L. fluxus flowing, loose, slack. See {Flux}, n.] 1. (Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called {silk}. [1913 Webster] 2. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
