Silk: Its Production and Manufacture [Chinese Translation]
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A Chinese translation (Commercial Press, Shanghai, January 1924) of Luther Hooper's English handbook on silk, titled 蠶絲概論 (Outline of Sericulture/Silk). It covers silk's value and sources, silkworms and wild silk moths, the history of silk, sericulture, reeling, throwing (twisting), dyeing, and types of silk thread. It then treats silk weaving: ancient Chinese figured fabrics, simple and compound drawlooms, Jacquard punched-card harnesses, satin and damask (figured satin) weaves, the westward spread of silk weaving to Italy, Europe and England, and modern weaving. Illustrated with diagrams of looms, harnesses, weave patterns, reeling and throwing machinery, and photographs of historic textiles.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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