The Silk Industry of France
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Two pages from The Textile Mercury (2 May 1891) with a summary of French silk industry statistics drawn from an article by Alfred Renouard, followed by an extract on the silk industry of Middleton, Lancashire. The French section covers centres of production, sources of raw silk in 1889, production values, workforce, wages and fixed plant. The Middleton piece describes the decline of cottage hand-loom silk weaving and its effect on family life. Page 2 also carries news items and part of a paper on cotton bleaching (Mather-Thompson process, steamer kier). Illustrations show a hand-loom weaver and a woman winding bobbins.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1891
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Archive notes
- Digital photography.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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