American Silk, 1830-1930

American Silk, 1830-1930

Author: Jacqueline Field

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780896725898

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"Traces the American silk industry, once the world's largest, through case studies of the Nonotuck (Northampton, Massachusetts), Haskell (Westbrook, Maine), and Mallinson (New York and Pennsylvania) silk companies. Examines entrepreneurs as well as history of technology and products from sewing-machine thread to mass-produced plain and high-fashion silks"--Provided by publisher.