The Irish standard., 1896-02-22
S$ SOMETHING ABOUT SILK.
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SOMETHING ABOUT SILK.
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!. All moths produce some form of silk. !.
The silk worm is liable to over 100 dis
eases.
Silk worm eggs are about the size Of
mustard seeds.
|. The French introduced seri-culture in
Louisiana in 171S.
In the year 1900 the manufacture OF
silk began in England.
l In 1910 the silk factories in Prussia
employed $4,000 operators.
The product of silk in Connecticut in
1899 was five tons Of raw silk.
The supreme judges of the United
States wear gowns of black silk.
The silk associations of Ireland and
Great Britain was formed N 1886.
Henry VIII. was the first English king
to wear a pair of silk stockings.
Silk goods are said to take dyes more
readily than any other fabrics.
The Imperial library in Paris mas 20
books printed OH white silk.
Germany manufactured in 1887 $780,
600 pounds of silk, worth Ed 500, 900.
The inner fibers of the cocoons are
much finer than those of the outer layers.
In TIA the first regular silk mill in
England was put in operation at Derby.
In IT'S the first patent was taken out
in England for the manufacture of silk.
Ten wears ago japan manufactures 81
200. 900 pounds of silk, worth f6. 100000.
Before the Revolutionary war nome
made Connecticut silk sold at 81 an
ounce.
In 1861 six new species of silk worms
were undergoing development in France.
The silk industry in China employs it
is estimated, from 1000, 900 to 100000
people. .,ss
Ten years ago all Europe manufacture
ed $4,000, 900 pounds Of silk, valued at
f64, 5000
In the time of Aristotle cocoons were
unwound and the silk was made in the
Island of Cos.
Some historians say that the Manufac-
tire of silk was introduced into Spain by
the Moors.
AS early as 1865 there We're 10000 OPP
eratives in the English silk mills and
cocoon houses.
The house of the Caaba, or holy resort
of Mecca is covered with a canopy Of
black silk velvet.
In the eighteenth century silken CO.
coons sold in the London market for l
shilling per pound.
! Roger, king of italy, is said to have III
troduced the silk culture into that coun-
try about TAG.
In the South of China silk worms have
been reared and silk manufactured Tor
over 5000 years.
Some authorities on dying say that
silk receives and holds q dye better than
any other fabric.
Between the years 1860 and 1876 l0O,-
900 pounds of silk were exported from
Georgia to England.
The silk moth energies from its cocoon
in from fifteen to sixty days, according
to the temperature.
Spain, formerly large silk producer,
in 1887 manufactured only 6O0,0O0
pounds, valued at G1, 100000.
The size of each thread, as spun by the
silk worm, is ore two-hundredths part OF
an inch in diameter.
The rearing of silk worms as a special
industry spread from China to India as
early as 1000 B. c..
The rearing of worms and manufac-
ture of silk were completely broken UP
in America by the Revolution.
AS long ago as 1873 the silk Industry
in Italy employed $4,000 men, l2O,Ooo
women and 10000 children.
The first expectation of American SILK
was in 1734, when eight pounds were sent
from America to England.
From the German colony OF EbeneZef,
near Savannah in the year OF l749, over
/ 900 pounds Of silk were exported.
In the Book Of Ezekiel a fabric is men-
toned by the name of silk as we'll known
in Assyria and Babylon.
An edict Of the Emperor Tiberius for
babe Roman citizens to wear any gar
ments made in whole or in part of silk.
Russia is not large silk producer.
The amount of the product in 1887 was
90OO 900 pounds valued at f1,80O,O00.
The official executioner Of the sultan Of
Turkey uses a silken cord in strangling
persons ordered to be put to death.
The silk worm is three inches long and
is we'll provided with legs, having no less
than 16 of these valuable members.
In the year $40 the mulberry tree was
first cultivated in Greece and the Levant
for the benefit of the silk worms.
EGGS and mulberry trees were sent out
to Georgia by the British government
shortly after the settlement Of the colony.
The silk insect is a moth, one inch long
bv two across with wings of bright vel
low color and having crescent shaped
spots.
Superstitious persons say that y wart
cut off by tying silk thread round 1t and
dra wing the ends tightly over will never
return.
The silk from cocoons containing male
insects is said to be stronger and better
than that from cocoons made by females.
In the early machines. electricity was
generated by tuning large GLASS wheel
which rubbed against a sllken oand or
cloth.
The canopy Of MohaDlmed's tomb at
Mecca is made of the heaviest variety or
black silk manufactured especially for
this purpose.
During the reign OF Justinian Thebes,
Corinth and Argos were the leading lIu-
ropean centers for the manufacture OF
silk.
The silken thread is spun from two
orifices in the nose of the silk worm, the
two threads being united by a geia-
tinOus substance.
Among the spoils taken by Judas Mac
cabeus from the Syrians, whom he de-
feated in battle in the year 1856 B. c., was
quantity of silk.
After Napoleon was crowned emperor
his imperial toes became so tender that
he could only wear new silken stockings
He never wore pair but three days, then
nut on another, the discarded stockings
becoming the perquisite of his valet.
AS early as 1854 an English convoca-
IT,. .aooroo1 that tho higher clergy dur