Facts About Silk
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A two-page article giving a general overview of silk as a textile fiber. It covers the silkworm and cocoon, the history of silk from China to Japan, India and Europe, and the fiber's physical and chemical properties. It also explains sericin removal, weighting with metallic salts, reeling and throwing, and the confusing silk yarn count systems, ending with a conversion table of deniers, drams, metric numbers and yards per pound.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- May 1955
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Archive notes
- PDF provided by Judith Combs. By permission.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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