A French treatise of 1824 on raising silkworms according to the practice of the Cévennes, followed by a survey of silk products and a note on making silk stockings. It covers mulberry cultivation and grafting, hatching the eggs, the rearing room and its equipment, the molts and diseases, spinning of the cocoons, and preserving the seed. It then covers killing the chrysalids, reeling silk (including with a steam-heated basin), grades of silk, and uses of waste material such as floret, bourette, filoselle and silk waste. The last part is a long set of notes keyed to pages of the main text.