Download or read book The Story of Silk and Cheney Silks written by Herbert Manchester and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Silk Cheney Silks written by Manchester Herbert and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book STORY OF SILK CHENEY SILKS written by Herbert Manchester and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book STORY OF SILK CHENEY SILKS written by HERBERT. MANCHESTER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Silk Cheney Silks written by Herbert Manchester and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Silk Cheney Silks In the last spring month the young empress was wont to purity herself and offer a sacrifice to the goddess of the silk worms. She herself would go to the fields and gather mulberry leaves. The raising of the silk worms was so important that at this season she would dispense with the waiting women who sewed and embroidered for her, and forbid similar work for the noble ladies and ministers' wives in order that all might give their attention to the culture of the worms. As this suggests, the silk industry in ancient China was considered so vital to the prosperity of the people as to be interconnected with various religious rites. From a compilation made by the Chinese government of the early notices and rules in regard to silk culture, it is possible to get a very good idea of the methods they employed even in the earliest, as well as mediaeval, times. There are also several paintings on antique porcelains and a number of quaint wood cuts by ancient Chinese artists, which serve to visualize the industry and give something of its atmosphere as it existed in those far off days. Low-Show, for example, in 1210 produced a whole series of 46 wood cuts showing the processes of agriculture and silk culture which had already been in use from time immemorial. The industry naturally fell into the great divisions of Chinese Industry The Mulberry Tree raising the mulberry trees, producing cocoons, reeling, and weaving the silk. It was early recognized that there were two great species of mulberry trees, - the loo, or large mulberry, which was common in the north, and the king, or dwarf, which was native to the south. The king was more hardy, but the loo had larger and more abundant leaves. For this reason the Chinese early learned to graft a slip from the large on to one from the dwarf mulberry, and to raise the trees from such slips, with the dwarf one furnishing the root. Oil cakes and decayed fish were used for fertilizer. As the tree grew it was carefully pruned by cutting off the central branches, so as to make it spread and increase the foliage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Story of Silk and Cheney Silks Primary Source Edition written by Manchester Herbert and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The History of the Silk Industry in the United States written by Shichirō Matsui and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Glossary of Silk Terms Including a Short History of Silk written by Cheney Brothers and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Story of Silk written by John Feltwell and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the silk industry, discusses silkworms and mulberry trees, describes silk production methods, and looks at how silk has been used
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Download or read book Unravelled Dreams written by Ben Marsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest hopes and expectations that accompanied American colonialism – from its earliest incarnation – was that Atlantic settlers would be able to locate new sources of raw silk, with which to satiate the boundless desire for luxurious fabrics in European markets. However, in spite of the great upheavals and achievements of Atlantic plantation, this ambition would never be fulfilled. By taking the commercial failure of silk seriously and examining numerous experiments across New Spain, New France, British North America and the early United States, Ben Marsh reveals new insights into aspiration, labour, environment, and economy in these societies. Each devised its own dreams and plans of cultivation, framed by the particularities of cultures and landscapes. Writ large, these dreams would unravel one by one: the attempts to introduce silkworms across the Atlantic world ultimately constituted a step too far, marking out the limits of Europeans' seemingly unbounded power.
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