Silk
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A 1922 Merchandise Manual Series textbook on silk written for department store salespeople and purchasers. It covers silk cultivation, reeling, spinning, weaving (including gauze, double cloth, pile and Jacquard pattern weaving), dyeing, finishing, artificial silk, tests for adulteration, color and design principles, and an alphabetical survey of silk yard goods, velvets, ribbons, and umbrellas. It also includes a history of silk, selling and care advice, stock classifications, a glossary with French pronunciations, and an index. Illustrations are mainly photographs of mills and processes plus a few diagrams of a Jacquard loom, a color wheel, and design repeats.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 259
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