Flottilons

Flottilons
FLOTTILONS
Test skeins of raw silk, reeled 450 metres = 492 yards, to determine the denier or size of silk. Each test skein is wound in 400 turns on a reel of 1121/2 centimetres in circumference (about 441/4-in.). The denier count in the weight in half decigrammes of 450 metres of yarn. See Denier.

Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.

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