Silk and Silk Manufacture, No. III: The Silk Industry in England
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A one-page 1873 magazine article, third in a series on silk, covering the silk industry in England. It describes how French Huguenot exiles brought silk weaving to England and Spitalfields, then gives an anecdotal account of Joseph Marie Jacquard, his loom, and its reception in Paris and Lyons. It closes with a summary of world raw silk production and silk manufacturing countries in the early 1870s.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- August 1873
- Language
- English
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- 1
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