The principal manufacture throughout this district is the tusser or jungle silk.
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Tussar
//ˈtʌsə//
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The Tusseh silk is pretty well known in the English market; it is supplied by a large moth measuring five and a-half to six inches from wing to wing, the Antheræa paphia of Linnæus: The silk is strong and coarse, of a flax-brown colour.
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She wore a black lustre skirt that just exposed her broken button-boots, a white blouse topped heavily with moth-eaten lace, a long coat of well-worn tusser, and a purplish black silk hat […]
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The carpets were rich with colour and design, the sofas were covered in silks and tussars […]
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