Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1898 — Weighted Silk. [ARTICLE]

Weighted Silk.

To show the manner in which silk is adulterated, an English chemist recently analyzed a piece of silk with the following results: Real silk, 28; water, 11; ash (mostly tin oxide anr silica), 14.30; organic matter, not silk, 46. Such “silk” becomes shabby in a few weeks, but so rapid are the changes of fashion that it is said to be preferred by many purchasers.