American silk: 1830 - 1930 ; entrepreneurs and artifacts

"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 s...

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Hauptverfasser: Field, Jacqueline (VerfasserIn), Senechal, Marjorie 1939- (VerfasserIn), Shaw, Madelyn (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lubbock, Tex. Texas Tech Univ. Press 2007
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Zusammenfassung:"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.
Beschreibung:"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.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XXIV, 326 S. Ill. 25 cm
ISBN:0896725898

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