A great deal of this silk is used for stockings and socks, and for weaving in with wool-fabrics, but there is also another kind of Filoselle used in needlework.
Filoselle silk was formerly a "spun silk," and the product chiefly of the silkworm, which naturally eats its way through its cocoon.
Couched cord or filoselle is useful in covering the raw edge of the onlay, not so much masking the joints as making them sightly.
Filoselle is well adapted to couching, and may be laid double (24 threads).
Mark carefully on the lapping the exact position of the centre of the nock of the arrow, and overlap with two or three strands of waxed filoselle very tightly for about one-third of an inch, with the mark under its centre.
Wrap two strands nine inches long of waxed (yellow) filoselle tightly upon the string at each nocking-place for the third of an inch, with the pencil-mark under the centre of this third.
The principal wrapping is now complete, and the waste ends of (yellow) filoselle are ready in place to complete the necessary thickening for the nocking-places.
Now take three strands of waxed filoselle of another colour (red), and in length from one yard to four feet.
Buy a skein or two of old gold filoselle of a somewhat darker shade than your silk, or a good bronze-color that harmonizes well with it.
Take two or three threads from a strand of filoselle in your needle at once, and do not take too long a needleful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filoselle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
