On second thought, I think that the author believed he was offering an improvement on Aldam’s original fly. Church vestments decorated with gold and silver thread are centuries old. Tailors making ceremonial clothing for Masons would have been a source, not only for silk thread, but also various tinsels and gold and silver thread.
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