Silk Filatures
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A ten-page section from Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922-23) on silk filatures in China. It opens with a description of the steam filature process: cocoon buying, peeling, sorting, reeling, packing, and the other raw silk types (Tsatlee, yellow, Tussah, Canton). It then gives silk export statistics for 1922-23 and a directory of filatures by city (Shanghai, Wusih, Chungking, and others). The directory lists managers, reels or spindles, output in bales, receipts and profits, with Chinese characters for firm names. The final pages tabulate silk brands (chops), with their grades and places of origin.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Languages
- English, Chinese
- Pages
- 10
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