Thrown Silk

Raw silk yarn that has been twisted or doubled. Thrown silk can take three forms:

  1. Single yarn, used in weaving very fine fabrics
  2. Tram, which are two or more yarns twisted together; and
  3. Organzine, which is twisted one way and then doubled and twisted the other way.

Nowadays most yarn to be used in weaving is machine-thrown.

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