Silk: Its Production and Manufacture
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A general introduction to silk in Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries series, covering the whole chain from sericulture to finished cloth. Early chapters treat the silkworm, silk-producing moths, the history of silk and its spread from China to Europe, rearing, reeling, throwing, winding, doubling and dyeing. The later chapters deal with weaving: ancient and Chinese silk webs, the simple and compound draw-loom, satin and damask weaving, Eastern and European silk weaving, English silk weaving to about 1800, the Jacquard machine and modern practice. Illustrated with line drawings of machinery and plates of historic textiles, and includes diagrams of satin and draw-loom mountings on ruled design paper, plus an index.
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