A Peep into Sericulture
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A short article by Gertrude Whiting recounting what she observed of silk production in Italy: raising silkworms on mulberry leaves, cocoon spinning, buying and weighing cocoons, killing the pupae, and reeling filaments from hot-water-softened cocoons. It also mentions Tussah silk from Manchuria, silkworm breeding experiments at Nanking, and cottage weaving of silk Roman blankets that were brushed to a shaggy surface. A photograph shows a cart loaded with baskets of cocoons, and the last page carries a 1554 dedicatory sonnet by Matthio Pagan from a Venetian pattern book as a filler.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1921
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Pages
- 4
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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