American Silk, 1830-1930

American Silk, 1830-1930
Author: Jacqueline Field
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780896725898

"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.