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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Silk · Heading 1849; source lines 20489–20499 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of wearing silk clothes, is a sign of high ambitions being gratified, and friendly relations will be established between those who were estranged.
For a young woman to dream of old silk, denotes that she will have much pride in her ancestors, and will be wooed by a wealthy, but elderly person. If the silk is soiled or torn, she will drag her ancestral pride in the slums of disgrace.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Silks · Heading 723; source line 4516 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a lady to dream of silks and satins, and that she is having fine dresses made of those fabrics, foretells poverty and want: if she imagines that she is presented with a plain cheap dress, and is pleased with the present, it is a sign she will have some excellent luck; but if she dislikes it, it shows that she will refuse an offer that will cause her after regrets.
The source heading “Silks” is shown on the Silk page: singular/plural
View source editionA. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Silk · Dream section, heading 487; source lines 1788–1795 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see silk, either in pieces or for sewing, signifies prosperity and success in undertakings. To dream you are clothed in silk, foretells that you will do honors in the state, and become rich, but that you will quarrel with a rich neighbor, who will endeavor to do you mischief. For a married woman to dream of being dressed in a silk gown, shows her husband is fond of a harlot, who will go near to ruin him. If a maiden dreams of it, she will speedily see her lover.
Anonymous
Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams · Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894
Silk · Dream section, heading 36; source lines 318–328 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see silk, either in pieces or for sewing, signifies prosperity and success in undertakings; to the lover, it denotes a sweetheart of an industrious disposition, good tempered, and very faithful; in trade, it foretells increase of business, by means of women. To be clothed in silk foretells honors and riches, but you will quarrel with a rich neighbor, who will endeavor to do you mischief. For a married woman to dream of being dressed in a silk gown, shows her husband is fond of some one who will nearly ruin him. If a maiden dreams of it, she will speedily see her lover.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Silk · Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11923–11925 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To be clad in silk augurs honor; to trade in silk, profit (Artemidorus).
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