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American Naturalist

Cynthia Silk-Worm, Andrews, W. V. American Naturalist, Vol. 2, No. 63 (August 1868), 10 pages. Posted October 3, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 744 KB PDF


American Silk Worm, Part 1, Trouvelot, L. American Naturalist, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 1867), 9 pages. Posted October 3, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 648 KB PDF


American Silk Worm, Part 2, Trouvelot, L. American Naturalist, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 1867), 11 pages. Posted October 3, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 580 KB PDF


American Silk Worm, Part 3, Trouvelot, L. American Naturalist, Vol. 1, No. 3 (April 1867), 8 pages. Posted October 3, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 572 KB PDF


American Whig Review

The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, ..., ---. American Whig Review, 1 page. Posted February 4, 2004. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 532 KB PDF


Appletons' Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics

Silk-Spinning Machinery, ---. Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics, 1889, 3 pages. Posted February 11, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.3 MB PDF


Appleton's Journal

Culture of the Silk-Worm, ---. Appleton's Journal, Vol. 1 (1869), 3 pages. Posted October 4, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 624 KB PDF


Arts and Decoration

Artistic Triumph of American Silks, ---. Arts and Decoration, Vol. 12 (1919-1920), 2 pages. Note: Reduced to 85% to fit on page. Posted June 18, 2004. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 716 KB PDF


Bay State Monthly / New England Magazine

A Gallant Silken Trade, Earle, Alice Morse. Bay State Monthly / New England Magazine, Vol. 22 (1900), 8 pages. Posted September 13, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 988 KB PDF


Books

Family Bombycidae (Silk-Worm Moths) from The Moth Book, Holland, W. J. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920, 5 pages. Posted April 1, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 676 KB PDF


Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club

Notes on an Early Silk Weave, ---. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 27 (1943), 8 pages. Posted January 17, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.1 MB PDF


Retrospective Exhibition of Lyons Silks, ---. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1927), 6 pages. Posted September 23, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 984KB PDF


Some Mediaeval Silks from the Caspian Provinces of Iran, Ackerman, Phyllis. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 39 (1955), 17 pages. Posted January 9, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.6 MB PDF


Some Shiraz Silks, Ackerman, Phyllis. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 36 (1952), 24 pages. Posted January 9, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.1 MB PDF


Silk Trade of Lucca, de Roover, Florence Elder. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 38 (1954), 21 pages. Posted January 9, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.1 MB PDF


Two Mediaeval Woven Silk Fabrics in the Bindings of the 9th Century MS. The Four Gospels" in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City, Elsberg, H. A. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 17 (1933), 10 pages. Posted November 20, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.4 MB PDF


Elephant Medallion Silk in the Cooper Union Museum, Morris, Frances. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1932), 5 pages. Posted October 1, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 788 KB PDF


Nine English Silks, Rothstein, Natalie. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 48 (1964), 32 pages. Posted October 23, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 3 MB PDF


Note of Silk Culture in America in the Eighteenth Century, Stiles, Ezra. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1923), 3 pages. Posted September 21, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 496 KB PDF


18th Century Silk-Designer's Manual, Thorton, Peter. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 4 (1958), 25 pages. Posted January 9, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.6 MB PDF


Notes on Chinese Silk Found in the South of Russia, Toll, N. P. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 34 (1950), 10 pages. Posted January 9, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF


Silk Weaves of Lucca and Venice in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Weinberger, Martin. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 25 (1941), 27 pages. Posted January 17, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 3.1 MB PDF


Peep in Sericulture, Whiting, Gertrude. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1921), 4 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Posted February 15, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 648 KB PDF


Silkworm, and its Culture in Hawaii, Whiting, Gertrude. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1926), 4 pages. Posted September 23, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 752KB PDF


Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Silk Culture, ---. Century, Vol. 23, No. 6 (April 1882), 2 pages. Posted October 6, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 840 KB PDF


Chambers's Encyclopedia

Silk and Silkworm, ---. Chambers's Encyclopedia Supplement, 1881, 5 pages. Posted February 7, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 996 KB PDF


Charities and the Commons

Some Greek Children, Hyde, Arthur Edward. Charities and The Commons, November 9, 1907, 3 pages. Posted October 2, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 560 KB PDF


China Pictorial

Khotan's Modern Silk Industry, Wang Lou-chin. China Pictorial, 1965, No. 1, 2 pages. Note: Reduced to 75% to fit on page. Posted December 24, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.5 MB PDF


Collier's

Wild Silk -- An American Possibility, Aaron, S. F. Collier's, Vol. 44 (1909), 1 page. Posted September 23, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 552 KB PDF


Craftsman

Dyeing Silks, Pellew, C. E. Craftsman, Vol. 15 (1909), 4 pages. Posted September 24, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 760 KB PDF


Silk Dyeing (Continued), Pellew, C. E. Craftsman, Vol. 15 (1909), 4 pages. Posted September 24, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 740 KB PDF


Diccionario Enciclopédico

Seda [Silk], ---. Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Amerocano, 8 pages. Posted August 21, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.9 MB PDF


Dictionnaire des Arts et Manufactures et de L'Agriculture

Soie [Silk], ---. Dictionnaire des Arts et Manufactures et de L'Agriculture, 1891, 32 pages. Note: Scanned from microfilm; poor quality. Posted November 3, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 12.3 MB PDF


Domestic Encyclopedia

Mulberry Tree, ---. Domestic Encyclopedia, 1821, 2 pages. Posted February 16, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 492 KB PDF


Silk, ---. Domestic Encyclopedia, 1821, 1 page. Posted February 16, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 400 KB PDF


Silk Worm, ---. Domestic Encyclopedia, 1821, 1 page. Posted February 16, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 456 KB PDF


Encyclopedia Britannica, 1st ed.

Silk, ---. Encyclopedia Britannica, 1st ed., 1771, 3 pages. Posted July 1, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 586 KB PDF


Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed.

Silk, Mellor, A. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1911, 12 pages. Posted August 20, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.7 MB PDF


Encyclopaedia Perthensis

Silk, ---. Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1803, 11 pages. Posted July 8, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.6 MB PDF


Engineering and Mining Journal

[Silk], ---. Engineering & Mining Journal, April 26, 1913, 1 page. Posted October 4, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 444 KB PDF


Engineering Weekly

Keats' Silk Thread Twisting Machine, ---. Engineering Weekly, January 22, 1875, 2 pages. Posted April 1, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 724 KB PDF


Machinery for Treating Silk Waste, Part 1, ---. Engineering Weekly, July 3, 1874, 2 pages. Note: Reduced to 85% to fit on standard paper. Posted October 4, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.7 MB PDF


Machinery for Treating Silk Waste, Part 2, ---. Engineering Weekly, August 7, 1874, 4 pages. Note: Reduced to 85% to fit on standard paper. Posted October 4, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.3 MB PDF


Pneumatic Oven for Drying Silk Cocoons, ---. Engineering Weekly, January 19, 1872, 1 page. Posted March 21, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 596 KB PDF


English Encyclopedia

Silk Manufacture, ---. English Encyclopedia, 1867, 3 pages. Posted February 1, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 984 KB PDF


English Historical Review

English Silk Industry in the Eighteenth Century, Hertz, Gerald B. English Historical Review, Vol. 24, No. 96 (October 1909), 18 pages. Posted February 18, 2004. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.4 MB PDF


Great Industries of the United States

Sewing Silk and Machine Twist, ---. Great Industries of the United States, 1872, 5 pages. Posted September 25, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 744 KB PDF


Silk Dress Goods, ---. Great Industries of the United States, 1872, 6 pages. Posted September 25, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 900 KB PDF


Harper's Monthly Magazine

Among the Silk-Worms and Velvet Looms, ---. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 11 pages. Note: review. Posted September 12, 2004. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 5.6 MB PDF


Spider's Silk, ---. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1, 2 pages. Posted November 3, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 792 KB PDF


Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist

Silkworm Culture, ---. Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturalist, Vol. 1 (1904), 1 page. Posted November 5, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 444 KB PDF


Household Words

Silken Chemistry, Dickens, Charles. Household Words, Vol. 5 (1853), 3 pages. Posted July 11, 2004. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 628 KB PDF


Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary

Silk, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 10, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 484 KB PDF


[Silk], ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Note: Collected short articles. Posted August 8, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 504 KB PDF


Silk Culture, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 19, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 472 KB PDF


Silk Manufacture, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 10, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 448 KB PDF


Silk Reel, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 10, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 432 KB PDF


Silk Sorting Machine, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 26, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 456 KB PDF


Silk Stretching Machine, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 26, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 416 KB PDF


Silk Twisting and Reeling, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 11, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 408 KB PDF


Silk Twisting and Reeling, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 26, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 408 KB PDF


Silk Winder, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 19, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 456 KB PDF


Silk-Cleainng Knife, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 10, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 400 KB PDF


Silk-Cleaning Knife, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 26, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 396 KB PDF


Silk-Sorting Machine, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 10, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 468KB PDF


Silk-Stretching Machine, ---. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, 1 page. Posted September 11, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 420 KB PDF


Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary

Silk Machinery, ---. Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary, 1884, 1 page. Posted February 15, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 412 KB PDF


Silk Softening Machine, ---. Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary, 1884, 1 page. Posted February 15, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 424 KB PDF


Silk Winder, ---. Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary, 1884, 1 page. Posted February 15, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 448 KB PDF


Spooling Machine, ---. Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary, 1884, 2 pages. Posted February 15, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 484 KB PDF


London Encyclopaedia

Silk, ---. London Encyclopaedia, 1829, 15 pages. Posted June 24, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.1 MB PDF


Magazine of Art

Revival of the British Silk Industry, ---. Magazine of Art, 1898, 2 pages. Posted June 19, 2004. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 704 KB PDF


Manufacturer and Builder

Gloss on Silk, ---. Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 1 (1869), 1 page. Posted January 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 712 KB PDF


Restoring Silk Hats, ---. Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 1 (1869), 2 pages. Posted January 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.4 MB PDF


Silk and Silk Manufacture, No. III: The Silk Industry in England, ---. Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 5, No. 8 (August 1873), 1 page. Posted March 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.1 MB PDF


Spider's Silk, ---. Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 1 (1869), 1 page. Posted January 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 560 KB PDF


Whence Came our Silks, ---. Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 1 (1869), 2 pages. Posted January 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.2 MB PDF


A Fiber of Silk: From the Worm to the Finished Fabric, Part V., Rice, George Damon, Jr. Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 24, No. 5 (May 1892), 2 pages. Posted March 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.6 MB PDF


Master Weaver

Facts About Silk, ---. Master Weaver, No. 21 May 1955, 2 pages. Note: PDF provided by Judith Combs. By permission. Posted July 15, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 563 KB PDF


How to Weave Silk, ---. Master Weaver, No. 21 May 1955, 6 pages. Note: PDF provided by Judith Combs. By permission. Posted July 15, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 996 KB PDF


Melliand (specimen)

Necktie Fabrics of Bemberg Silk, ---. The Melliand (specimen), 1929, 1 page. Posted July 8, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 440 KB PDF


On the Physics and Chemistry of Dyeing Phenomena: IV. On Phenomena Observed in the Dyeing of Silk and Wool, Fikentscher,H. and K. H. Meyer. The Melliand (specimen), 1929, 9 pages. Posted July 6, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 980 KB PDF


The Dyeing of Acetate Silk, Rabe, Dr. The Melliand (specimen), 1929, 5 pages. Posted July 8, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 816 KB PDF


Melliand

History of the Sericulture Industry in China, ---. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 11 (February 1930), 3 pages. Posted September 3, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 612 KB PDF


New Silk Loom: Box Motion, Dobby, and Cone Harness Motion, ---. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No.10 (January 1930), 3 pages. Posted March 5, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF


Silk Loom, ---. The Melliand, Vol. 2, No. 12 (March 11931), 1 page. Posted December 24, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 620 KB PDF


Making Silk Throwing Profitable, Garden, Nelson B. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1929), 6 pages. Posted July 5, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 880 KB PDF


The Silk Stocking an Inventor's Fate, Karmel, Franz. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1929), 2 pages. Posted July 20, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 580 KB PDF


Toile de Soie -- Part I, Martinelli, J. A. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 10 (January 1930), 4 pages. Posted November 4, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 760 KB PDF


Toile de Soie -- Part II, Martinelli, J. A. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 11 (February 1930), 3 pages. Posted November 4, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 692 KB PDF


Toile de Soie -- Part III, Martinelli, J. A. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 12 (March 1930), 3 pages. Posted November 4, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 860 KB PDF


Weaving Rayon and Silk Mixed Fabrics, Piconi, John. The Melliand, Vol. 2. No. 11 (February 1931), 2 pages. Posted January 9, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 784 KB PDF


African Wild Silk and Its Uses, Saurenhaus, Max. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 7 (October 1929), 4 pages. Posted October 4, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 984 KB PDF


History of Textile Industry -- Spun Silk: Transition from a Home-Industry to Mechanical Spinning, Strohl, Ivan A. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No.10 (January 1930), 3 pages. Posted March 5, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 756 KB PDF


Biological Investigations of the Silk Worm, Wagner, W. The Melliand, Vol. 2, No. 2 (May 1930), 3 pages. Posted December 24, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 700 KB PDF


Melliand's Textilberichte [Melliand's Textile Reports]

Gewebe und Effekte mit Acetatseide, Hoz, H. Melliand's Textilberichte [Melliand's Textile Reports], 1927, 3 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by John Cropper. Posted December 11, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 688 KB PDF


Gebildweberei in Seidendamastdecken des Rokoko [Pictorial Weaving of Silk Damask of the Rococo Period], Schellenberg, Alfred. Melliand's Textilberichte [Melliand's Textile Reports], 1927, 1 page. Posted July 8, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 684 KB PDF


Meyers Konversations-Lexikon

Seide [Silk], ---. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1897, 4 pages. Posted July 8, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 896 KB PDF


Seidenspinner, ---. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1897, 4 pages. Posted July 8, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 776 KB PDF


Nature

[Decline of the Indian Silk Industry], ---. Nature, Vol. 34, November 25, 1886, 2 pages. Posted June 17, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 416 KB PDF


Inheritance in Silkworms, ---. Nature, Vol. 79, November 19, 1908, 1 page. Posted September 28, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 452 KB PDF


[Machinery or Winding Silk], ---. Nature, Vol. 35, April 21, 1887, 1 page. Posted June 17, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 404 KB PDF


Silk-Producing Insects of West Africa, Dudgeon, Gerald C. Nature, Vol. 79, December 10, 1908, 1 page. Posted September 28, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 424 KB PDF


[Wild Silks of India], Peppe, T. F. Nature, Vol. 35, January 13, 1887, 1 page. Posted June 17, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 412 KB PDF


New-England Magazine

Domestic Silk, ---. New-England Magazine, 1 page. Posted October 8, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 464 KB PDF


New International Encyclopedia

Floss Silk, ---. New International Encyclopedia, 1922, 1 page. Posted February 10, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 400 KB PDF


Organzine, ---. New International Encyclopedia, 1922, 1 page. Posted February 17, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 400 KB PDF


Silk, ---. New International Encyclopedia, 1922, 5 pages. Posted February 17, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 836 KB PDF


Silkworm, ---. New International Encyclopedia, 1922, 5 pages. Posted February 17, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 964 KB PDF


News Bulletin of Lingnan University

Silk in the Life of South China, ---. The News Bulletin of Lingnan University, November 1928, 6 pages. Posted March 1, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 3.8 MB PDF


Nouveau Larousse Illustré

Soie [Silk], ---. Nouveau Larousse Illustré, 1904, 2 pages. Posted August 13, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 776 KB PDF


Ver a Soie [Silk Worm], ---. Nouveau Larousse Illustré, 1904, 1 page. Posted August 13, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 508 KB PDF


Overland

Silk-Culture in California, ---. Overland, Vol. 4 (1870), 6 pages. Posted September 27, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 788 KB PDF


American Silk-Work Moth: Telea Polyphemus, Miller, Ellen Robertson. Overland, Vol. 43 (1904), 2 pages. Posted September 23, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 508 KB PDF


Silk Culture in California, Williams, Carrie. Overland, Vol. 40 (1902), 6 pages. Posted September 24, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 996 KB PDF


Oxford Encyclopedia

Silk, ---. Oxford Encyclopedia, 1828, 4 pages. Posted January 23, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 724 KB PDF


Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Attempts to Rear Silk-Worms in England, ---. The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 11 (April 1842), 3 pages. Posted August 26, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 644 KB PDF


Day at the Derby Silk-Mill, ---. The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 12, Supplement (April 1843), 8 pages. Posted April 19, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.7 MB PDF


Silk-Producing Fish, ---. The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 9 (February 1, 1840), 2 pages. Posted April 19, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 668 KB PDF


People's Friend

Cleaning Silk, ---. People's Friend, 1872, 1 page. Posted June 17, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 412 KB PDF


Philosophical Transactions

A Letter of the Curious Mr. Henry Barham, R. S. Soc. to Sir Hans Sloan, Part, Vice-President of the Royal Society; Giving Several Experiments and Observations on the Production of Silk-Worms, and of their Silk in England, as made by Him Last Summer, ---. Philosophical Transactions, 1719, 3 pages. Posted October 4, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 552 KB PDF


New Improved Silk Reel, Pullein, Samuel. Philosophical Transactions, 1759, 12 pages. Posted October 19, 2003. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.1 MB PDF


Popular Science Monthly

Length of Thread of the Silk-worm, ---. Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 4 (1873-1874), 1 page. Posted June 17, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 400 KB PDF


Sericulture in Brazil, ---. Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 4 (1873-1874), 2 pages. Posted June 17, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 436 KB PDF


Posselt's Textile Journal

Printing of Silk Warps for the Manufacture of Chiné Silk, ---. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1907, 5 pages. Posted February 18, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.4 MB PDF


Designing and Fabric Structure of Jacquard Silks, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1911, 2 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by John Cropper. Posted February 20, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 194 KB PDF


Designing and Fabtic Structure of Jacquard Silks, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1911, 4 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by John Cropper. Posted February 20, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 478 KB PDF


Old Chinese Story of the Origin of Silk, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, March 1922, 3 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by John Cropper. Posted April 2, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.9 MB PDF


Scarf and Necktie Silks, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1916, 3 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by John Cropper. Posted February 17, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 446 KB PDF


The Moiréing of Silk Fabrics, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, January 1922, 2 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by John Cropper. Posted April 2, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 569 KB PDF


Silk from Fibre to Fabric, Part 1, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1907, 2 pages. Posted February 5, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 624 KB PDF


Silk from Fibre to Fabric, Part 3, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1907, 4 pages. Posted February 15, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF


Silk from Fibre to Fabric, Part 3, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1907, 4 pages. Posted February 17, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.5 MB PDF


Silk Substitutes, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1907, 4 pages. Posted February 18, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.6 MB PDF


Rea's Far Eastern Manual

Cotton Spinning and Weaving Mills, Silk Mills. Towel and Ribbon Factories, Etc. (Japanese), ---. Rea's Far Eastern Manual, 1922, 43 pages. Posted May 2, 2004. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 6.8 KB PDF


Silk Filatures, ---. Rea's Far Eastern Manual, 1922, 10 pages. Posted May 2, 2004. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.6 MB PDF


Silk Filatures (Japanese), ---. Rea's Far Eastern Manual, 1922, 64 pages. Posted May 2, 2004. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 7.1 MB PDF


Silk Weaving Mills, ---. Rea's Far Eastern Manual, 1922, 4 pages. Posted May 2, 2004. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 736 KB PDF


Rees's Cyclopaedia

Manufacture of Silk, ---. Rees's Cyclopedia, 1819, 10 pages. Posted June 24, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.8 MB PDF


Silk, ---. Rees's Cyclopedia, 1819, 3 pages. Posted June 24, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 608 KB PDF


Repertory of Arts and Manufactures

Specification of the Patent Granted to Mr. Joseph Barton for an Improved Method of Preparing Indigo for the Purpose of Dying Wool, Silk, Cotton, and Other Articles, Barton, Joseph. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 9 (1798), 2 pages. Posted June 7, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 425 KB PDF


Specification of the Patent Granted to Mr. Robert Miller for a Method of Weaving All kinds of Linen, Cotton, Woollen, and Worsted Cloths, Hawksley, John. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 8 (1798), 7 pages. Posted June 7, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 624 KB PDF


Conclusion of Mr. Henry's Considerations Relative to the Nature of Wool, Silk, and Cotton, as Objects of the Art of Dying,, Henry, Thomas. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 2 (1795), 27 pages. Posted June 20, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.4 MB PDF


Considerations Relative to the Nature of Wool, Silk, and Cotton, as Objects of the Art of Dying, Part 1, Henry, Thomas. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 2 (1795), 20 pages. Posted June 4, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.1 MB PDF


Considerations Relative to the Nature of Wool, Silk, and Cotton, as Objects of the Art of Dying, Part 2, Henry, Thomas. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 2 (1795), 20 pages. Posted June 4, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF


Considerations Relative to the Nature of Wool, Silk, and Cotton, as Objects of the Art of Dying, Part 3, Henry, Thomas. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 2 (1795), 16 pages. Posted June 4, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 992 KB PDF


Specification of the Patent granted to Mr. Richard Varley for his Improved Method of Carding, Roving, and Spinning Cotton, Wool, and Silk, Varley, Richard. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 11 (1799), 5 pages. Posted June 10, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 560 KB PDF


Science

Silk Spinning Fly Larvae, Garman, H. Science, Vol. 22 (1893), 3 pages. Posted December 13, 2003. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 784 KB PDF


Silk-Spinning Cave Larva, Garman, H. Science, Vol. 22 (1893), 1 page. Posted October 16, 2003. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 516 KB PDF


Scientific American

American Silk Manufacture, ---. Scientific American, Vol. 7, No. 45 (1852), 1 page. Posted March 7, 2005. CD (HWDA12). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 676 KB PDF


Improved Silk-Assorting Machine, ---. Scientific American, Vol. 6, No. 5 (February 1, 1862), 2 pages. Note: Reduced to 85% to fit on page. Posted April 2, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 700 KB PDF


Technical World

Helping the Silk Worm Spin, ---. Technical World, Vol. 18, September 1912, 1 page. Posted May 14, 2004. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 432 KB PDF


Tree That Grows Silk, ---. Technical World, Vol. 16, 1911, 1 page. Note: Kapok. Posted September 27, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 432 KB PDF


Textile Mercury

A Prayer Book Woven in Silk, ---. Textile Mercury , Vol. 4 (1891), 2 pages. Note: Digital photography. Posted August 1, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.99 MB PDF


Silk and Satin Manufactures, ---. Textile Mercury , Vol. 4 (1891), 1 page. Note: Digital photography. Posted August 1, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.29 MB PDF


The Silk Industry of France, ---. Textile Mercury , Vol. 4 (1891), 2 pages. Note: Digital photography. Posted August 1, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 4 MB PDF


Textiles

Boiling-Off Silk, Girard, J. L. Textiles, Vol. 15, No. 3 (September 1919), 1 page. Posted February 15, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 536 KB PDF


Boiling-Off Silk, Part 1, Girard, J. L. Textiles, July 1919, 2 pages. Note: One in a series of articles that probably started in an earlier volume. Part numbering is relative. Posted August 1, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 524 KB PDF


Boiling-Off Silk, Part 2, Girard, J. L. Textiles, August 1919, 1 page. Note: One in a series of articles that probably started in an earlier volume. Part numbering is relative. Posted August 1, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 460 KB PDF


Textile World Journal

Details of Manufacture of Spun Silk Yarns, Hollis, J. W. Textile World Journal, Vol. 51, No. 46 (October 14, 1916), 2 pages. Posted February 15, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 876 KB PDF


United States Democratic Review

History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool and other Fibrous Substance, Including Observations on Spinning, Dyeing and Weaving, Also an Account of the Pastoral Like of the Ancients, ---. United States Democratic Review, 1846, 1 page. Note: Review. Posted October 1, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 640 KB PDF


Manufacture of Wool, Silk, Cotton and Flax, ancient and Modern, ---. United States Democratic Review, 1846, 7 pages. Posted October 1, 2004. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.9 MB PDF


Workers of the Nation

Silk Manufacture, ---. Workers of the Nation: An Industrial Encyclopedia of the Occupations of the American People, 1906, 5 pages. Posted August 12, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 814 KB PDF


Woman's World

Adulteration of Silk, Sibbald, Andrew T. Woman's World, Vol. 3 (1890), 2 pages. Posted October 24, 2003. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 596 KB PDF


Silk-Weaving in the East-End, Sibbald, Andrew T. Woman's World, Vol. 3 (1890), 4 pages. Posted October 21, 2003. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF


Zell's Encyclopedia

Silk, ---. Zell's Encyclopedia, 1876, 1 page. Posted August 13, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 544 KB PDF


Silk-Worm, ---. Zell's Encyclopedia, 1876, 1 page. Posted August 13, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 524 KB PDF


books

---. Extrait d'un Ancien Livre Chinois [Extract from an old Chinese book], Pihan Delaforest, 25 pages. Note: Provided by Philippe Demoule. Posted September 3, 2002. CD (CWDA04). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.2 MB PDF


---. Letters from the Secretary of the Treasury in Relation to the Growth and Manufacture of Silk, Gales and Season, 1828, 232 pages. Posted June 18, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 13.9 MB PDF


---. Pei wen geng zhi tu, 1696, 99 pages. Note: scanned from photocopy. Posted August 9, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 7.8 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 11.8 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 9.3 MB PDF.


---. Silk: Its Origin, Culture, and Manufacture, Corticelli Silk Mills, 1911, 46 pages. Posted April 1, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 3.1 MB PDF


---. Summary of the Principal Chinese Treatises Upon the Culture of the Mulberry and the Rearing of Silk Worms, Peter Force, 1838, 203 pages. Posted July 9, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 7.4 MB PDF


---. Zhi si jing quan tu, 1916, 14 pages. Note: Poor quality, especially images. Completeness and page order uncertain. Posted July 13, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.2 MB PDF


Bonafous, Matthieu. De L'Education de Vers a Soie [On Raising Silkworms], Madame Huzard, 1827, 98 pages. Note: Provided by Philippe Demoule. Posted July 7, 2002. CD (CWDA04). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.8 MB PDF


Butler, Edward A. Silkworms. Young Collector Series 2nd Ed, Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1892, 108 pages. Posted July 5, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 6.4 MB PDF


Carrier, Amans. Des Vers a Soie [Silkworms], 1838, 30 pages. Note: Provided by Philippe Demoule. Posted September 3, 2002. CD (CWDA04). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.1 MB PDF


Chittick, James. Silk Manufacture and its Problems, James Chittick, 1913, 579 pages. Posted June 8, 2003. CD (HWDA06). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 11.5 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 11.6 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 10.4 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 5.3 MB PDF.


Chittick, James and E. A. Posselt. A Glossary of Silk Terms, Including a Short History of Silk, its Origin, Culture and Manufacture, Cheney Brothers, 1915, 95 pages. Note: 2-up. Posted June 24, 1999. CD (CWDA01). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.6 MB PDF


Falke, Otto von. Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei, Vol. 1 [Art History of Silk Weaving], Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1913, 213 pages. Note: Rebuilt March 15, 2003. Posted January 16, 2003. CD (HWDA06). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 5 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 9.9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 9.8 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 12.6 MB PDF.


Falke, Otto von. Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei, Vol. 2 [Art History of Silk Weaving], Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1913, 240 pages. Note: Rebuilt May 1, 2003. Posted May 1, 2003. CD (HWDA06). SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 8.3 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 9.7 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 10.6 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 9.9 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 9.6 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 8.6 MB PDF.


Franke, O. Kêng Tschi T'u. Ackerbau und Seidengewinnung in China: Ein kaiserliches lehr- und mahn-Buch. [Agriculture and Silk Production in China: An Imperial Instruction and Cautionary Book], 1913, 312 pages. Posted February 1, 2003. CD (CWDA05). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 9.9 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 11.1 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 11.4 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 12.5 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 7.7 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 9 MB PDF. Part 8: File size 9.8 MB PDF. Part 9: File size 9.2 MB PDF. Part 10: File size 9.2 MB PDF.


Gaddum, H. Silk, H. T. Gaddum & Company, 1948, 64 pages. Posted July 15, 1999. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 3.2 MB PDF


Halle, Johann Samuel. Seidenmanufaktur [Silk Manufacture]; Werkstätte der heutigen Künste oder die neue Kunsthistorie, Die eilfte [sic] Abhandlung], Wendelin und Halle, 1762, 47 pages. Posted February 12, 2003. CD (CWDA05). SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 6 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 6.7 MB PDF.


Honda, Iwajiro. Silk Industry of Japan, The Imperial Tokyo Sericultural Institute, 1909, 221 pages. Posted January 13, 2003. CD (HWDA06). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 9 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 8.1 MB PDF.


Hooper, Luther. Silk: Its Production and Manufacture, Pitman & Sons, 1911, 126 pages. Posted April 29, 2001. CD (CWDA03). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 5.9 MB PDF


Hooper, Luther. Silk: Its Production and Manufacture [Chinese Translation], Pitman & Sons, 1911, 130 pages. Posted June 23, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 8.1 MB PDF


Janos Bolle. Selyemtenyesztes Japanban, Orszagos Kosegi Nyomda Reszyenytaggsasag [Silkworm Breeding in Japan], 1899, 129 pages. Posted December 17, 2004. CD (HWDA12). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 10.6 MB PDF


K'rchikean, Hakob. Metak'sabanut'iwn kam aghek metak's shinelu arhest (Sericulture), Hovhannes Miwhentiseanin Tparane, 1846, 263 pages. Note: Armenian. Posted April 8, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 8.9 MB PDF


Lardner, Dionysius. A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Silk Manufacture, Carey & Lea - Chestnut Street. Philadephia, 1832, 262 pages. Posted October 7, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 12.1 MB PDF


Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, M. Nouvelles Considérations sur les Vers á Soie [New Thoughts on Silkworms], Madame Huzard, 1859, 219 pages. Note: Provided by Philippe Demoule. Posted July 2, 2002. CD (CWDA04). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 7.8 MB PDF


Manchester, H. H. The Story of Silk and Cheney Silks, Cheney Brothers, 1916, 61 pages. Posted March 1, 2003. CD (CWDA05). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 9.1 MB PDF


Pasteur, Louis. Etudes sur la Maladie du Ver Soie [Studies on the Illnesses of Silkworms], Masson & Co., 1928, 810 pages. Note: Provided by Philippe Demoule. Posted July 7, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 4.2 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 9.3 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 10.3 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 11 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 10.9 MB PDF.


Paulet, Jean. Art du fabricant d'estoffes de Soie [The Art of the Producer of Silk Fabrics], 1779, 605 pages. Posted August 23, 2002. CD (CWDA04). SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 8.9 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 8 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 7.7 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 7.4 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 10.5 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 8.2 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 5.6 MB PDF.


Posselt. E. A. Silk Throwing, Textile Publishing Company, 1918, 254 pages. Note: 2-up, portrait mode. 138 document pages. Posted February 10, 2002. CD (CWDA02). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 7.1 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 6.3 MB PDF.


Posselt, E. A. Textile Machinery Part 3: Wool, Cotton, Silk from Fibre to Fabric, E. A. Posselt, 1905, 473 pages. Note: Volume IX in Posselt's Textile Library. Posted November 27, 2001. CD (CWDA02). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 6.6 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 7.2 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 7.4 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 7.2 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 8.6 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 7.1 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 7.4 MB PDF. Part 8: File size 8.0 MB PDF. Part 9: File size 7.0 MB PDF. Part 10: File size 6.4 MB PDF.


Qianlong, Emperor of China. Yu zhi geng zhi tu, Vol. 1, 1700s, 25 pages. Note: Landscape mode. Posted July 9, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 6.4 MB PDF


Qianlong, Emperor of China. Yu zhi geng zhi tu, Vol. 2, 1700s, 25 pages. Note: Landscape mode. Posted July 12, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 5.2 MB PDF


Reynaud, M. Des Vers á Soie et de Leur Education [About Silkworms and Raising Them], Á la Libraire du Commerce, Chez Renard, 1824, 374 pages. Note: Provided by Philippe Demoule. Posted July 7, 2002. CD (CWDA04). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 7.5 MB PDF


Seillon, Jean. Traité de Tissage Appliqué aux Soieries et Rubans [A Treatise on Weaving applied to Silk and Ribbon], Urbain Balay, 1893, 300 pages. Posted May 8, 2002. CD (CWDA03). SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 6.1 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 6.9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 5.4 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 4.6 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 10.1 MB PDF.


Serres, Olivier de and Nicholas Geffe. The Perfect Use of Silke-Wormes, and Their Benefit, Felix Kyngston, 1607, 107 pages. Note: Scanned from microfilm. Posted March 5, 2003. CD (HWDA06). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 3 MB PDF


T. B. A Compendious Account of the Whole Art of Breeding, Nursing, and the Right Ordering of the Silk-Worm, 1733, 41 pages. Posted July 14, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.7 MB PDF


Thompson, Eliza B. Silk, Ronald Press, 1922, 259 pages. Posted June 16, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 8.8 MB PDF


Vieil, Pierre. Sériculture [The Silk Industry], Librairie J.-B. Bailliére et Fils, 1905, 277 pages. Posted February 13, 2003. CD (CWDA05). SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 7.9 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 7.4 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 7.3 MB PDF.


Vignon, L. La Soie [Silk], Librairie J.-B. Baillié et Fils, 1890, 182 pages. Note: Provided by Philippe Demoule. 2-up. Posted July 7, 2002. CD (CWDA04). SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 10.3 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 10.7 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 10.4 MB PDF.


Wardle, Thomas. Kashmir: Its New Silk Industry, Natural History, Geology, Sport &c., Simpson, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1904, 421 pages. Posted February 15, 2003. CD (CWDA05). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 6 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 4.5 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 7.1 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 10.4 MB PDF.


Wardle, Thomas. On the Present Development of Power-Loom Weaving of Silk Fabrics at Lyons, William Harris & Sons, 1893, 55 pages. Posted March 12, 2003. CD (HWDA06). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 3.4 MB PDF


ephemera

Textile mills and plants

Willimantic, Connecticut Area. Drawings, postcards, and photographs, 10 pages. Posted May 23, 2003. File size 1.2 MB PDF


Chafee Silk Mill, Willimantic, CT. Picture postcard, 1 page. Posted January 26, 2003. File size 32 KB PDF


Publications

Chittick, James . Order slip for the book "Silk Manufacturing and its Problems", 1 page. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 24 KB PDF


Weaving and textile organizations

Nonotuck Silk Co,. Florence, Massachusetts. Advertisement, 1 page. Posted May 21, 2003. File size 48 KB PDF


Textile-related businesses

William Skinner & Sons, Holyoke, Massachusetts. Sample folder, 1917, 4 pages. Posted May 22, 2003. File size 388 KB PDF


Tu Chin Sheng Silk Weaving Factory. Woven advertisement, 2 pages. Posted July 18, 2003. File size 580 KB PDF


Social and political history

The Case of the English Weavers and the French Merchants. Broadside, 1670, 1 page. Note: Scanned from microfilm. Posted April 11, 2004. File size 532 KB PDF


Textile-related businesses

Cheney Silks. Advertisement in Arts and Decoration, 1921, 1 page. Posted September 15, 2003. File size 204 KB PDF


Equipment factories

Atwood Machine Company, Stonington, Connecticut. Advertisement for silk machinery, 1 page. Posted September 3, 2003. File size 16 KB PDF


Textile-related businesses

Claussner. Advertising postcard, 1 page. Posted January 23, 2004. File size 484 KB PDF


Textile equipment

Silk Reeling. Picture postcard, 1 page. Posted August 19, 2003. File size 36 KB PDF


Textile-related businesses

Eureka Silk. Trade cards, 3 pages. Posted February 18, 2003. File size 300 KB PDF


Corticelli. Trade cards, 4 pages. Note: Last updated December 20, 2003. Posted December 20, 2003. File size 284KB PDF


Belding Bros. & Co. Trade Cards, 2 pages. Posted April 16, 2003. File size 360 KB PDF


Keystone Spool Silk. Trade card, 1 page. Posted February 18, 2003. File size 220 KB PDF


Potter's Spool Silk. Trade card, 1 page. Posted February 20, 2003. File size 48 KB PDF


Belding Bros. Advertisement, 1891, 1 page. Posted July 23, 2003. File size 72 KB PDF


M. Hemingway & Sons. Advertisement, 1886, 1 page. Posted July 24, 2003. File size 16 KB PDF


illustrations

---. Workshop in the Shihmein County Filature Processes Silk Produced Locally, China Pictorial, 1975, No. 5, 1 page. Posted September 22, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 604 KB PDF


Diderot, Denis and John Le Rond d'Alembert. Encyclopedia: Weaving Plates, Part XI -- Silk dye/Teinture soie, 1763, 4 pages. Note: Contributed by Philippe Demoule. Posted June 19, 2002. CD (CWDA05). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 712 KB PDF


monographs

---. "Directions for the Rearing of Silk Worms" in Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts, James Kay, Jun, & Co., 1831, 7 pages. Posted June 10, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1,1 MB PDF


---. Necessaries; Best Product of Land; Best Staple of Commerce, James Humphreys, 17 pages. Posted May 16, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.7 MB PDF


---. Roman Silk Across the Ages, The C. Santamaria Roman Silk Weaving Co. Rome, 21 pages. Posted June 1, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.6 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 1 (Monograph 5002A), International Textbook Co., 1924, 58 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.9 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 10 (Monograph 5002J), International Textbook Co., 1924, 66 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.9 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 2 (Monograph 5002B), International Textbook Co., 1924, 48 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.1 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 3 (Monograph 5002C), International Textbook Co., 1924, 47 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.2 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 4 (Monograph 5002D), International Textbook Co., 1924, 51 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.5 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 5 (Monograph 5002E), International Textbook Co., 1924, 59 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.9 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 6 (Monograph 5002F), International Textbook Co., 1924, 88 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 3.8 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 7 (Monograph 5002G), International Textbook Co., 1924, 68 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.0 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 8 (Monograph 5002H), International Textbook Co., 1924, 62 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.8 MB PDF


---. Silk Throwing, Part 9 (Monograph 5002I), International Textbook Co., 1924, 57 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.7 MB PDF


Brickett, C.J. and Luft, Carl A. Silk Testing, Part 2 (Monograph 5001B), International Textbook Co., 1925, 48 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.1 MB PDF


Brickett, C.J. and Luft, Carl A. Silk Testing, Part 3 (Monograph 5001C), International Textbook Co., 1925, 58 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Copyright not renewed. Posted August 11, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.5 MB PDF


Brown, Harriet G. The Story of Silk, F.A. Owen Publishing Company, Dansville, N.Y., 1907, 36 pages. Posted June 19, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.4 MB PDF


Budd, F. W. Decorative Silks in America, Cheney Silks, 1924, 14 pages. Note: Copyright expired. Posted February 18, 2003. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.8 MB PDF


Cronise, Titus Fey. Section on Agriculture from The Natural Wealth of California, H. H. Bancroft, 1868, 12 pages. Posted April 26, 2004. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 944 KB PDF


Kellogg, Vernon L. Inheritance in Silkworms: I, Stanford University Press, 1908, 91 pages. Posted May 7, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 5.2 MB PDF


Roberts, Walter Scott. Silk Culture in America, 1945, 113 pages. Posted October 7, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 11.3 MB PDF


Smiles, Samuel. "John Lombe: Introducer of the Silk Industry into England" in Men of Invention and Industry, John Murray, 1884, 14 pages. Posted June 10, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF


patents

Silk equipment

Apparatus for Breeding Silkworms, US01816368, Fioruzzi, V.. July 28, 1931, 15 pages. Posted February 5, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.4 MB PDF


Apparatus for Rearing Silkworms, US03727580, Yumiyuma. Seisuke, et al. April 17, 1973, 14 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.3 MB PDF


Apparatus for Reeling Silk from the Cocoon, US00399937, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. March 19, 1889, 6 pages. Posted June 15, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 760 KB PDF


Apparatus for Separatur Wast Floss from Cocoons, US00399936, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. March 19, 1889, 3 pages. Posted June 15, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 628 KB PDF


Artificial Feed for Domestic Silkworms, US03794499, Shirota, Minoru, et al. Feburary 26 1974, 3 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 652 KB PDF


Artificial Feed for Silkworms and Method of Using the Same, US03583871, Niimura, Masazumi, et al. June 8, 1971, 3 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 632 KB PDF


Artificial Feed for Wild Silkworms, US03792172, Shirota, Minoru, et al. Feburary 12, 1974, 2 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 548 KB PDF


Cocoon Holder for Silk Reeling Machines, US00320709, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. June 23, 1885, 2 pages. Posted January 20, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 524 KB PDF


Cocoon Lodgment, US00001347, Jenkins, S. M.. September 28, 1839, 2 pages. Posted July 18, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 508 KB PDF


Device for Reeling Silk from the Cocoon, US00317222, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. May 5, 1885, 2 pages. Posted January 20, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 504 KB PDF


Device for Twisting Silk from Cocoons and Other Materials, US00248408, Daina, F.. October 18, 1881, 3 pages. Posted January 20, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 612 KB PDF


Eating-Inducing Compositions for Wilkworms, US03275446, Hamamura, Yasuji, et al. September 27, 1966, 2 pages. Posted February 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 628 KB PDF


Electrical Regulator for Reeling Silk from Cocoons, US00202125, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. April 9, 1878, 3 pages. Posted June 15, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 540 KB PDF


Enclosure for Educting Silkworms, US02416037, Mead, M. H.. February 18, 1947, 7 pages. Posted February 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.2 MB PDF


Feeding Silkworm Larvae Feed Containing Propionic Acid, US03295983, Kato, Keizo, et al. January 3, 1967, 2 pages. Posted February 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 496 KB PDF


Feeding tent and Silk Worm Ventilation, US00003083, Gill, J. W.. May 12, 1843, 2 pages. Posted July 19, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 512 KB PDF


Feedstuff for Silkworms Containing Aromatic Polyhydroxy-Carboxylic Acid and Method, US03328170, Hamamura, Yasuji, et al. June 27, 1967, 4 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 740 KB PDF


Frame for Feeding Silk Worms, US00002130, Morris, E.. June 16, 1841, 4 pages. Posted July 19, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 672 KB PDF


Machibes for Spreading Silk, US00141071, Sault, J.. July 22, 1873, 3 pages. Posted June 15, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 568 KB PDF


Machine for Making Silk, US00001041, Dennis, J.. December 28, 1838, 4 pages. Posted July 18, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 644 KB PDF


Machines for Spreading Silk, US00141017, Sault, J.. July 22, 1873, 3 pages. Posted January 17, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 568 KB PDF


Manufacture of Silk, US00001468, Benson, B.. January 10, 1840, 4 pages. Posted July 18, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 600 KB PDF


Manufacture of Silk, US00002331, Tillighast, J. B.. November 10, 1841, 3 pages. Posted July 19, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 592 KB PDF


Method for Germ-Free Rearing of Silkworms by Using Plastic Insulator, US03465720, Miyazawa, Homare, et al. September 9, 1969, 5 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 748 KB PDF


Method for Rearing Silkworms, US03465721.pdf, Miyazawa, Homare, et al. September 9, 1969, 4 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 800 KB PDF


Method of and Apparatus for Conserving Coccoons of Silk Producing Insects, US01704972, Hurst, G. D.. March 12, 1929, 4 pages. Posted February 5, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 756 KB PDF


Method of Cocoon Storage by Cooling and Drying, US01717227.pdf, Kobori, K.. June 11, 1929, 3 pages. Posted February 5, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 632 KB PDF


Method of Inducing Moult of Silkworms, US03230930, Hamamura, Yasuji, et al. January 25, 1966, 3 pages. Posted February 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 604 KB PDF


Method of Making Cocoons with a Sounding Object, US03994259, Sakamura, Tomohiko. November 30, 1976, 15 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 956 KB PDF


Method of Raising Silkworms on Artificial Feed, US03488196, Niimura, Masazumi, et al. January 6, 1970, 2 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 588 KB PDF


Mode of Producing Silk from Insects, US00051988, Wilder, Wales & Nichols. January 9, 1866, 4 pages. Posted January 2, 2004. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 630 KB PDF


Procedure for Setting Up a Cocoonery for Silkworms as well as Removing Cocoons from the Coonconery and Apparatus Therefor, US03757740, Peressini, Gabriele. September 11, 1973, 7 pages. Posted March 6, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF


Process for Preparing Food for Silk Worms, US01990343, Maruse, Kunimaro. February 5, 1935, 1 page. Posted February 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 472 KB PDF


Sericulture, US01096116, Mead, M. H.. May 12, 1914, 7 pages. Posted January 22, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.1 MB PDF


Silk Reeling Machine, US00334619, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. January 19, 1886, 3 pages. Posted January 20, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 548 KB PDF


Silk Reeling Machine, US00334620, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. January 19, 1886, 4 pages. Posted January 20, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 584 KB PDF


Silk Reeling Machinery, US00334617, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. January 19, 1886, 3 pages. Posted January 20, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 628 KB PDF


Silk Reeling Machinery, US00334621, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. January 19, 1886, 3 pages. Posted January 20, 2004. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 580 KB PDF


Silk Reeling Machinery, US00406598, Serrell, E. W. Jr.. July 9, 1889, 9 pages. Posted June 15, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF


Silk Spinning Machine, US00003684, Harris, J. S.. July 30, 1844, 2 pages. Posted July 19, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 576 KB PDF


Silk Spinning Machinery, US00001909, Hertitage, G.. December 17, 1840, 3 pages. Posted July 19, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 548 KB PDF


Silk Winding Machine, US00001040, Dennis, J. Jr.. December 28, 1838, 5 pages. Posted July 18, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 700 KB PDF


Silk Winding Machine, US00001871, Heritage, G.. November 26, 1840, 2 pages. Posted July 18, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 524 KB PDF


Silk Winding Machine, US00001910, Heritage, G.. December 17, 1840, 2 pages. Posted July 19, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 548 KB PDF


Silk Winding Machine, USX0009022, Gay, G.. August 17, 1835, 3 pages. Posted January 2, 2004. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 728 KB PDF


Silk Winding Machine, USX0009138, Gay, G.. October 6, 1835, 4 pages. Posted January 2, 2004. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 648 KB PDF


Silk Worm Breeding Device, US00867138, Kaukasiele, D.. September 24, 1907, 2 pages. Posted February 3, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 576 KB PDF


Thread Forming Device for Silk Spinning Machines, US00361129, Camel, L.. April 12, 1887, 4 pages. Posted June 15, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 732 KB PDF


Treatment of Tussah-Silk Cocoons, US00354222, Randall, Henry B.. December 14, 1866, 2 pages. Posted June 15, 2004. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 536 KB PDF


Tree Coverer for Silkworm Culture, US01957994, Eccher, A. F.. January 9, 1933, 7 pages. Posted February 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 808 KB PDF


Fabrics

Silk Velvet Textile and Method of Manufacturing the Same, US05598615, Takada, Tooru. February 4, 1997, 12 pages. Posted March 2, 2003. CD (HWDA10). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 868 KB PDF


periodicals

American Silk Journal

Nov. 50, No. 2 (February 1931), 44 pages. Note: Copyright expired. Posted April 4, 2005. File size 7.3 MB PDF


Ciba Review

11 (July 1938), 44 pages. Note: PDF provided by Margaret Coe. Posted September 1, 2006. File size 10.9 MB PDF


documents created for online publication

Demoule, Philippe. A Museum Treasure, 4 pages. Posted March 1, 2003. FIRST PAGE. File size 524 KB PDF


Demoule, Philippe. L'Atelier du Canut Lyonnais au XIXme Siècle [The Workshop of the Lyonnais Canut in the 19th Century], 130 pages. Posted July 7, 2002. FIRST PAGE. File size 3.4 MB PDF


Demoule, Philippe. Le Dictionaire de la Soierie I: Glossaire [Dictionary of Silk Making: Glossary I], 71 pages. Posted March 5, 2002. FIRST PAGE. File size 524 KB PDF


Demoule, Philippe. Le Dictionaire de la Soierie II [Dictionary of Silk Making: Glossary II], 72 pages. Posted May 24, 2002. FIRST PAGE. File size 416 KB PDF


Demoule, Philippe. The Great Story of Silk Trade of Lyons, 12 pages. Posted June 19, 2002. FIRST PAGE. File size 169 KB PDF


Demoule, Philippe. Velours ciselé de Soie [Cut Silk Velvet], 3 pages. Posted April 23, 2002. FIRST PAGE. File size 452 KB PDF


other

Exhibition catalogs and guides

---. Cineské Hedvábi [Chinese Silks], Náprstkovo Muzeum, 1970, 52 pages. Posted November 1, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 3.4 MB PDF


Pamphlets

---. Only Silk is Silk: For the Student of Silk, International Silk Association, 6 pages. Posted December 11, 2002. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.7 MB PDF


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