JAPANESE COLD THREAD.
This article, which is used in liner embroidery on account of its elegant lustre, consists of a core of silk or of wool, and a spiral envelope of thin gilded paper. The strip of paper is only two-fiftieths to three-fiftieths of an inch wide, and, therefore, must be wound with great care. The thiead thus wound is saturated with shellac, and then gilded. Compared to European gold thread these threads possess the advantage of greater flexibility and finer lustre. In this they equal the beautiful gold thread of the Middle Ages, the manufacture of which for a long time was a lost art, and was recently discovered by microscopic investigation.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 5, 30 January 1892, Page 115
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113JAPANESE COLD THREAD. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 5, 30 January 1892, Page 115
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