Silk - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: silkRaw silk
Raw silk, is thin and fine filament of silkworm. Whatever has been eaten by the silkworm, it brings out as a liquid which gets solidified on coming into contact with oxygen.The solidified material is the silk filament. The silkworm spins the silk filament around itself as a protective shell and this is called cocoon. Each such cocoon is nothing but a continuous length of the silk filament of about 500 metres.The silk filament in a continuous unbroken length is capable of being reeled out only before the moth comes out. So the pupa inside the cocoon is not allowed to undergo metamorphosis, and is destroyed by throwing the cocoon into hot water. The thread then reeled out of the cocoon on yanks either in country charkhas or filature basin is the silk yarn, and is called raw silk, State of Karnataka v. BV Aswathanarayana Setty, (1980) 2 Kant LJ 361 (DB)....
Rayon or artificial silk fabrics
Rayon or artificial silk fabrics, 'rayon or Artificial Silk Fabrics' includes varieties of fabrics manu-factured either wholly or partly from rayon or artificial silk but do not include any such fabrics... (iii) if it contains cotton and less than 60 per cent by weight of rayon or artificial silk;...' Union of India v. Ahmedabad Manufacturing and Calico Printing Co. Ltd., AIR 1986 SC 121 (122): (1985) 3 SCC 693: (1985) Supp 2 SCR 537. [Central Excise and Salt Act Act, (1 of 1944), Sch. I, Item No. 22]...
Silk
Silk, means natural or real silk, or something of which natural or real silk is a component, AIR 1958 Ker 149 (151)....
Floxed silk
See Floss silk under Floss...
oil silk
Silk treated with oil to make it water tight it is used to make raincoats...
Silk stocking
Wearing silk stockings which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic hence elegantly dressed aristocratic luxurious chiefly applied to men often by way of reproach...
Cocoon
An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state From these the silk of commerce is prepared...
Crepon
A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk or of wool and silk...
Damask
Damask silk silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like...
VerbarFoulard
A thin washable material of silk or silk and cotton usually with a printed pattern on it It was originally imported from India but now also made elsewhere...
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