A 1918 handbook by E. A. Posselt (Hand Books of the Textile Industry, Vol. 3) on silk throwing, the processes that convert raw silk into organzine, tram and other thrown yarns. It covers raw silk types and sources (Japan, China, Italy, India, tussah), numbering, testing, classification and defects, then soaking, winding, doubling, spinning, reeling and stretching, with machinery descriptions and diagrams. Further chapters cover the history of silk throwing in America, throwing for the knit goods industry, silkworm breeding and diseases, silk soaps and oils, and U.S. silk industry statistics from the 1914 census. The volume also carries many period advertisements, including specimen pages for other Posselt books with a few weave drawdowns.