glass thread

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

A thick glass thread is wound around the neck.

From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard

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.

Now the workmen draw back the iron rods, which are still attached to the hot mass, and a glass thread is seen connecting them to the centre ball.

From Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various