A children's supplementary reader (Instructor Literature Series No. 93) telling the story of silk in a simple, conversational style. It follows the silkworm from egg through molting, spinning and cocoon, then covers mulberry and Osage orange food plants, the Chinese origin legend, the spread of silk culture to Europe, Japan, India and the American colonies, wild and spider silks, and a tour of a silk mill (reeling, throwing, dyeing, weighting, Jacquard weaving, ribbons). Illustrated with line drawings and a few photographs; the volume also carries publisher's series lists.