Silk
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An encyclopedia article on silk from the 1803 Encyclopaedia Perthensis. It covers ancient opinions about silk, the history of the silk trade from China to Persia, Greece and Rome, and the life cycle of the silkworm. It also gives practical instructions for rearing worms in temperate climates, including housing, feeding, mulberry and lettuce leaves, spinning, reviving languishing worms, selecting breeding cocoons, killing the chrysalis in the oven, and winding silk from cocoons. An engraved plate shows Swayne's apparatus for rearing silkworms and Mr. Sholl's improved silk loom.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1803
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 11
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