Author | : Jacqueline Field |
File Size | : 55,5 Mb |
Publisher | : Texas Tech University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 02 May 2024 |
ISBN | : 0896725898 |
Pages | : 372 pages |
American Silk 1830 1930 by Jacqueline Field Book PDF Summary
"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.