spun silk

noun

yarn produced by spinning silk waste and short, broken filaments from which the sericin has been removed. Compare reeled silk.
a fabric woven from this yarn.

spun silk

First recorded in 1750–60

There is another class of threads made from waste silk by spinning and known as spun silk.

And how did you get such most wonderful hair, like spun silk, every bit of it?

Her black hair was fine as spun silk; the coil under her hat-brim shone as she moved.

It is fed principally on the Hera, or Palma christi leaves, and gives sometimes 12 broods of spun silk in the course of a year.

I was wearing under my flannel shirt an under-vest made of wool and spun silk.

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