Vegetable Silk
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This section is from the "A Complete Dictionary of Dry Goods" book, by George S. Cole. Also available from Amazon: A complete dictionary of dry goods and history of silk, cotton, linen, wool and other fibrous substances,: Including a full explanation of the modern processes ... together with various useful tables.
Vegetable Silk
Vegetable Silk. A variety of brown colored down gathered from a kind of fern, imported from the Sandwich Islands, which is used in this country to a limited extent by upholsterers for stuffing mattresses, beds and cushions.
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