Silk
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An encyclopedia article on silk, opening with a dictionary-style etymology and literary quotations (Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden). The main text summarizes Mr. Stephenson's practical observations, published by the Society for the Promotion of Arts and Manufactures, on raising silk in Britain on the French model. It covers cultivating the white mulberry, hatching and rearing silkworms, cocoon spinning and selection, killing the chrysalis, and reeling the silk from cocoons in a heated basin. It ends by referring readers to WEAVING for later manufacturing processes.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1829
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 15
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