Sericulture in Brazil
Sample pages
Page 1, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
A short miscellany note from Popular Science Monthly, reporting via La Nature and Italian newspapers on efforts in Brazil to produce silk from a little-known moth, called Bombyx saturnia and known as the porta-espejos. It describes the caterpillar's food plants, the nest-like cocoon, the short six-to-seven-week harvest, the simple filature in warm water, and the thread's strength and coarseness. It notes hopes of producing a very cheap silk for weaving and sewing thread.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1873-1874
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »