Hi,
BFoelsch wrote:

To the best of my knowledge, the last "high-volume" use of DCC wire was
making cables for pipe organs. The pipe organ guys used it because you could
treat it as pushback wire, and that saved time due to the many thousands of
connections and conductors a typical pipe organ contains.

Tell me about it. Hundreds of wires cabled together, all the same
color. There oughtta be a law.

And:

I also remember silk covered wire, somewhere around here I have a small roll
of #40 silk covered. I always loved those cute little wooden rolls that old
magnet wire came on, kind of like a giant roll of thread. I am trying to
remember some of the manufacturers, maybe I'll look around and see if I
still have an old spool laying around with a label on it.

Belden (ha ha), Birnbach, Cornish Wire Co. on mine.

I definitely don't want to go into the supply business, but if
anyone absolutely *has* to have silk wire, I have spools of 31, 33,
34, 35 and 40 DSC, 38 double nylon, and 10x38 and 10x41 silk litz.

Cheers, Alan