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Here is some info about ribbon from "The New American Cyclopaedia", Ripley and Dana, eds. (1862):
"RIBBON, or RIBAND, an ornamental narrow strip of woven silk, worn chiefly for ornament.......The material for the warp of the best ribbons is Italian organzine silk, thrown from Italian raw silk.....The weaving is done as in other fabrics, and of late with the Jacquard machine. A fixed standard of widths is adopted, designated by different numbers of pence, which probably were the original prices, though now they have no such significance. From penny width to 40 penny width includes all ribbons from 1/4 inch to about 4-1/2 inches wide. The French designate them by numbers, running from 1 to 60. French and English make them of the same lengths -- 36 yards for satins, 18 yards for sarcenets or gauzes above the narrower widths, and 12 yards for the smaller sizes. French ribbons are generally lighter than the English, but they are made of better kinds of silk and better dressed. The varieties of ribbons are very numerous, as also the styles of ornamentation, which are continually changing. In the fancy ribbon called chine', the figures are printed or painted on the warp after it is prepared for the loom, and afterward woven in by the shuttle. The watered effect is produced by passing two ribbons, laid one on the other, between two cylinders, one of them containing a heater within it. The irregular pressure from the inequalities of the two surfaces of silk gives the wavy appearance. Galloons are strong thick ribbons used for bindings, shoestrings, &c. The wider ones are called doubles. Ribbon velvets are largely produced at Crefeld in Rhenish Prussia, and are also made at Spitalfields, England, and St. Etienne, France."
Here is some info about ribbon from "The New American Cyclopaedia", Ripley and Dana, eds. (1862):
"RIBBON, or RIBAND, an ornamental narrow strip of woven silk, worn chiefly for ornament.......The material for the warp of the best ribbons is Italian organzine silk, thrown from Italian raw silk.....The weaving is done as in other fabrics, and of late with the Jacquard machine. A fixed standard of widths is adopted, designated by different numbers of pence, which probably were the original prices, though now they have no such significance. From penny width to 40 penny width includes all ribbons from 1/4 inch to about 4-1/2 inches wide. The French designate them by numbers, running from 1 to 60. French and English make them of the same lengths -- 36 yards for satins, 18 yards for sarcenets or gauzes above the narrower widths, and 12 yards for the smaller sizes. French ribbons are generally lighter than the English, but they are made of better kinds of silk and better dressed. The varieties of ribbons are very numerous, as also the styles of ornamentation, which are continually changing. In the fancy ribbon called chine', the figures are printed or painted on the warp after it is prepared for the loom, and afterward woven in by the shuttle. The watered effect is produced by passing two ribbons, laid one on the other, between two cylinders, one of them containing a heater within it. The irregular pressure from the inequalities of the two surfaces of silk gives the wavy appearance. Galloons are strong thick ribbons used for bindings, shoestrings, &c. The wider ones are called doubles. Ribbon velvets are largely produced at Crefeld in Rhenish Prussia, and are also made at Spitalfields, England, and St. Etienne, France."
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