Another step was taken when Cross of London discovered that when the mercerized cotton was treated with carbon disulfide it was dissolved to a yellow liquid.
A mercerizedor dull finished marking cotton is used for the weaving.
For making these slippers in mercerized Perle cotton, which is very cool for warmer days, two balls will be required.
Get mercerized cotton to work with at first until you become accustomed to the stitch.
That would be a real pretty dress, she thought, with the pink sprigs and the pink feather-stitching in mercerized cotton she was going to put on it.
He could bring some of the pink mercerized cotton on his way back.
Mercerized yarn used in connection with silk is difficult to detect except by an expert eye.
The quality and degree of luster of mercerized cotton fabrics depends largely upon the grade of cotton used.
The cost of producing high-grade mercerized yarn is about three times that of an unmercerized yarn of the same count, spun from the commoner qualities of cotton.
Yarns and fabrics constructed of the ordinary grades of cotton cannot be mercerized to advantage.
Is the silk adulterated with mercerized cotton or artificial silk?
The materials employed for such colour effects are usually of the lustrous variety, silk or mercerized cotton, and they are forced into prominence on the face by the upward thrust of the ground yarn which they cover.
The yarn is mercerized usually in the hank when the hanks of yarn are stretched tightly over poles and then immersed in a strong solution of caustic soda.
Mercerized cotton is largely employed in knitted goods of the fancy class where the great lustre of the material imparts effectiveness to the fabric.
The usual type of mercerized thread used in knitting is two-ply and hard twisted, with the surface fibre singed off so as to give an uninterrupted reflection of light.
Under the cretonne curtain, though, the blue mercerized frock hung unworn, and in its dark drawer remained the petticoat with its rill of lace.
I hate little towns and little spenders and mercerized stockings and cotton lisle next to my skin, and machine-stitched nightgowns.
The blue mercerized dress she slid over a hanger, covering it with one of her cotton nightgowns and putting it into careful place behind the cretonne curtain that served her as clothes closet.
A great amount of doubled and trebled yarn is now sold, though it does not appear that recent expansions have added much to doubling spindles, and considerable developments continue in the use of dyed and mercerized yarns.
Mercerized cloths are of many kinds, as the mercerizing process can be applied to almost anything.
The inside seam is opened and notched at the bend of the elbow and an inch or two above and below and bound with silk binding ribbon or evenly overcast with twist or mercerized cotton.
Linen may be darned with linen or mercerized cotton.
This plant, also known as rhea and China grass and cultivated chiefly in China, yields a fiber of great strength and a luster about like that of mercerized cotton.
Mercerized cotton and rayon often are used to add effectiveness to the patterns.
The most effective warp prints are of plain or mercerized cotton.
Mercerized cotton warp works out effectively with silk or linen woof or with a combination of both, and retains its beauty after being laundered many times.
The warp may be silk or linen or mercerized cotton.
The pattern weaving shuttle should carry a coarser thread, which may be of silk, linen, wool, or mercerized cotton.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mercerized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
