A 1913 book by silk consultant James Chittick collecting papers on the business and management of silk manufacturing in the United States. Chapters cover choosing a mill site, buying raw silks (Japanese, Chinese), adulteration and weighting, cotton yarns, throwing, printing, finishing and dyeing, power transmission, humidification, and conditioning and testing of silk. Later chapters deal with costing broad silks and ribbons, mill labor and welfare, relations with commission houses and salesmen, merchandising, foreign markets, capital, depreciation, and efficiency standards. About 100 pages of trade advertisements and reference tables (raw silk classifications, yarn trade customs) follow the main text.