American silk, 1830-1930
Subtitle: entrepreneurs and artifacts
By: Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw.
Contributors: Senechal, Marjorie.; Shaw, Madelyn.
Series: Costume Society of America series
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780896725898
Subjects: Silk industry -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Silk industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.