glass thread

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Well, so did boats built of glass thread and resin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Take 1/2 in. of the platinum wire and slip it through the fine hole made by breaking the glass thread so that one-half of the wire will be inside of the long tube.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

I expect some of the glass thread with which the hull of the ship was made could be inserted with no trouble.

From Where I Wasn't Going by Richmond, Walt

This fiber, placed under a microscope, looks like a glass thread.

From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by McGlauflin, Idabelle

While it is turning, tap the tuning fork on the prong which has not the glass thread fastened to it.

From Common Science by Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)