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The Chinese product is commercially known as "tussar" silk.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Silk cultivation and manufacture have been growing rapidly in the past few years; a considerable part of the product is "tussar," or wild silk.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Another example is tussar silk, where disease-free moths are reared by people to make silk.
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His kurtas and dhotis were the finest mulmul in summer and tussar in winter – both traditionally woven too, he reasoned.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Stayorg said on October 12th, 2008 at 2:48 am i think it is great.. apart from this there are many more natural fabrics available like bamboo silk, khadi, tussar.. all these fabrics can be dyed using vegetable dyes to give a complete natural and organic look to final products.. for this India is the ultimate destination.
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His kurtas and dhotis were the finest mulmul in summer and tussar in winter – both traditionally woven too, he reasoned.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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His kurtas and dhotis were the finest mulmul in summer and tussar in winter – both traditionally woven too, he reasoned.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Direct dyed blacks are especially suitable for cheap goods (ribbons, light linings, etc.), for which special fastness to water is not required; also for tram and tussar silk plushes, which are afterwards topped with logwood.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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Obtain specimens of the cocoons of the silk-worm, raw silk gros-grain cloth, pongee, and tussar silk cloth.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Saris and salwars are available in Chanderi and Maheshwari silks, cotton, jute silks, khadi, tussar silks, matka silks, and crepe.
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