American Silk, 1830-1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts
(Part of the Costume Society of America Series Series)
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At one time America's silk industry was the largest in the world. Silk was late to be industrialized, well after cotton and wool. Nonetheless, nineteenth-century American entrepreneurs rapidly built a silk industry with levels of production once unimaginable. American Silk, 1830-1930 traces the evolution of the American silk industry through three compelling and very different case studies: the Nonotuck Silk Company of Northampton, Massachusetts;...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0896725898
ISBN13:9780896725898
Release Date:January 2007
Publisher:Texas Tech University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"
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