dyein

Updated: May 11, 2025

And every kind of silk fabric that wuz ever made raw silk, jest as the worm left it when she sot up as a butterfly, and jest what man has done to it after that spinnin', weavin', dyein' up to the time when it appears in the finest ribbon, and glossiest silk, and crapes, and gauzes, and velvets, and knit goods of every kind, and etc., and so forth.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair