Author : Jacqueline Field
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780896725898
Book Description
"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.