Silk Industry

Name: Silk Industry
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ISBN: 9780747804406

ISBN-10: 0747804400

ISBN-13: 9780747804406

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Sarah Bush

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A silk industry was first recorded in china about 2600 BC, its secrets spreading along the silk road to reach Constantinople in AD 500. In the fourteenth century it was establish in England. The early centres of the English silk industry, Spitalfields, Norwich and Canterbury, benefited from the arrival of the Dutch or Huguenot silk workers. In the 1820s the French Jacquard loom began to supersede the old drawloom, and in the 1830s power looms were first used to weave plain coarse spun silks. The decline began with Cobden's Free Trade Treaty of 1860, and was furthered by the advent of artificial silk. Thereafter, apart from a brief interlude of relative prosperity in the late 1920s and…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 10/20/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 32
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English



The silk industry


The British silk industry


Sericulture


Silk throwing


Silk waste spinning


Silk weaving


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