Silk Manufacture
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An encyclopedia article on the silk industry, covering the history of sericulture from China through Byzantium, Italy, France and England, and attempts to rear silk-worms in India and elsewhere. It describes cocoons, reeling by hand and by machine (including the Dickins and Chadwick apparatus for reeling and throwing in England), and the throwing of silk into singles, tram and organzine. It also covers silk spinning from waste, types of silk fabrics, the history of the English silk trade and its duties, and import and export statistics to 1860. Five engravings show reeling apparatus, a silk swift, a throwing machine and hand spinning.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1867
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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