Among the Silk-Worms and Velvet Looms
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An illustrated article from Harper's New Monthly Magazine on sericulture in Italy and the silk and velvet industry. It covers the history of silk from China and India to Europe and America, the life cycle and moults of the silk-worm, cocoonery construction, feeding, seed selection, and cocoon yields and prices. It ends briefly with reeling and throwing silk, velvet weaving in Genoa on home looms using wires and a third warp, and how satin is woven.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- c. 1870
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 11
- Archive notes
- review
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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