Sewing And Textiles; a Textbook for Grades And Rural Schools
Sewing And Textiles; a Textbook for Grades And Rural Schools
Turner, Annabell
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The art was known only to the royal family for a long time, but gradually the knowledge spread and it soon became an important industry in China. Later it became known to the people of Japan and slowly it spread through central Asia, Per- sia, Arabia, Spain, Sicily, and along the African coast. Silk culture was practiced in Italy in the twelfth century and in France in the following century. Most of the silk of commerce is ob- tained from the cocoons of a certain kind of caterpillar called Bomb...yx mori, or mulberry silkworm, which feeds — as the name implies — upon leaves of the mulberry tree. There are other varieties of silkworm which cannot be cultivated; these are called wild silkworm. They produce an inferior grade of silk called tussah. From this wild silk is manufactured the pongee silks of commerce. Most of the raw silk on the market is produced in China, Japan, France, and Italy. X42 Digitized by CjOOQIC STUDY OF SILK MATERIALS 143 Throughout the succession of changes which takes place in the insect, the greatest care has to be exercised in regard to temperature, quiet, and food.
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