sewing silk

And I am very busy sewing silk flowers in a golden gown for my wedding-day.

Sewing silk could receive further doubling and throwing.

High quality reticella is done with thread almost as thin as sewing silk.

He demonstrated where it fit onto the bowstring, indicating the sewing silk wound over the string to protect it.

Over the centuries, smuggling grew so rampant - with women even sewing silk stockings into their petticoats - that it threatened to destabilise our economy.

Our new toys and the little cases of sewing silk sold well, and people began to come more, after I lent Almiry some money to lay in a stock of better goods.

She knew better than to urge them to dress in the fashions Lachlan had learned abroad; but all the maids were driven frantic sewing silk and linen, gold thread, fur and leather.

The sewing silks manufactured by them were considered by competent judges superior to the best qualities made in Europe, and found a special demand for use in sewing machines on account of strength, uniformity of twist, and fine finish.

With the death of the townhouse plan and after other failed proposals over 25 years, preservationists see this as the last chance to build something historically significant and economically beneficial on the deteriorating seven-acre site, where, among other things, the Colt revolver and the nation's first skein of sewing silk were born.