sewing silk

noun

1. finely twisted silk thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sewing silk¹

First recorded in 1470–80

Example Sentences

From these she made patterns, cutting and sewing silk flowers that she arranged in the parlor.

From Literature

Now customers can observe designers in action, with new space for sewing, silk screening and jewelry making.

From New York Times

But she had scarcely reached it and shut herself in when the door was opened again by someone on the outside and Arabella put in her head, asking, “Where’s that sewing silk I told you to get me? and the buttons? did you match them?”

From Project Gutenberg

It was very difficult, no one would want anything, and at last in despair I dexterously carried away a skein, or half a skein, of brown sewing silk, with which Lydia was hemming two elegant gauze veils for herself and for Millicent.

From Project Gutenberg

“Cloths with red lists, great ticking with long stripes and fine wrought red kerseys, Silesia and other fine linen, fine velvet, small and great gold and silver laces, broad black bays, Turkish tapestry or carpets, white and all sorts of coloured yarns, blue and black beads, stitching and sewing silk, Canary wines, brandy, linseed oil, seamen’s knives, all sorts of spices, white sugar and many other commodities and trifles as great fish-hooks, pins a finger long, ordinary pins, needles and great and small hawks’ bells.

From Project Gutenberg