Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1912-06-27

stamped with the Bedding trade
mark by an automatic machine
thai counts as it prints. The
spooling is both by weight and by
yard. That is to say the silk is
wound for tailors use upon a
spool that when filed represents
a tested ounce of silk, whereas
hese are the common spool of
ommerce 100 yards Of thread. AS
The spools are wound they are
placed in broad trays and carried
into another department where
they are boxed in cartons holding
one dozen each. Every spool is
inspected before leaving the fac
tory. The dozen boxes are then
packed in boxes holding gross
and these in turn are packed in
large wooden shipping boxes and
shipped all over the world.
The process Of the manufacture
of embroidery silk is similar to
that Of sewing silk. Embroidery
silk goes through the same pro-
cess of sorting, winding, spinning.
twis ing, and so forth, but the
doubling of the embroidery silk
is much greater than in the sew
ing silks. Here the raw silk is
doubled from ten to twenty seven
times according to the size Of the
4 70 hn L.
ming together Of these raw silk
threads is also much less than in
the sewing silk, the amount of
spinning varying from 3 to 9
times to the inch according to the
kind of embroidery to be made.
The single thread thus spun, is
doubled and twisted slightly to
form the single cord. 1t is then
reeled and dyed.
One of the most important pro
ceSses in the manufacture Of en-
broidery silk is the dying. 1t
must have a very high luster and
this luster must be retained when
washed or exposed to the light.
I'm this process Bedding Brothers
& Company have eXcelled. BY a
secret process they are enabled to
dye embroidery silk which abso-
lutely will not fade. These silks
are of an excellent quality and of
a great range Of colors. 1t is
possible to obtain $500 different
shades Of silk.
The large skeins are taken
from the drying room of the dye
house and wound on bobbinS,
thence into small skeins, 5l2 to
'he pound. They are then tag
ged and punched and wrapped.
md placed in boxes which contain
: wrappers.
In mills No. 2 and 3 silk fabrics
are made exclusively. The raw
silk skeins are wound onto bob
Dins each holding about $4,000
Yards of silk. Bedding Brothers
& Company use more than $50
pounds daily for fabrics alone
These bobbins when filed are sent
o the room containing the warp
ING machinery. Between four
and five hundred bobbins are
placed upon the "creel". The
threads from these bobbins, or
warp threads as they will be call
ed are carried through three reeds
and passed onto the warper reel
where it is to be wound off in 300
to 600 yard warps, according to
the length desired. The opera
tor then commences the work of
constructing the warp. 1t is
wound in sections, and as each
section is wound another is start
ed until the desired number of
sections, usually thirty, is wound.
The number of threads on a warp
vary from 5000 to $1,000. 1t
takes about a day for the operator
to fiji the warper reel, and it is
then ready to be beamed. BY |
reversing the warpcr reel, the
completed warp is wound onto a
Seam with a heavy stiff paper
wound in between the alternate
layers so as to prevent the piling
IF the sections. 1t is then sent |
20 the twister, or enterer. AT |
he enterer. two girls sit on OPP
Dosite sides Of the harness, pass
ing the warp ends. a single thread
1t a time, through the needle eye
If the harness until each of the
many threads are in their allotted
places and in perfect Alignment
with the corresponding opening
in the reed. When this is finish
ed il is ready for the reeder. The
reeds vary in length from p to
iS inches according to the width
IF the cloth to be made and. con
ain fifty to one hundred and TWEEN
Nv dents TO the inch. The dents