The story of artificial silk

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Identifikator:: 1765923751

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-146069

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Casson, Herbert Newton http://d-nb.info/gnd/118814435

Title:: The story of artificial silk

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Efficiency Magazine

Year of publication:: [1928]

Scope:: xiii S., S. 17 - 130

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The vast possibilities of the artificial silk trade

Collection:: Economics Books

THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK Silk, but eventually a new type of loom will be invented—one which is not a makeshift. An ideal loom for Artificial Silk would be quite different from an ordinary cotton or worsted goods loom. This new yarn is compelling the cotton, woollen and linen men to overhaul their machinery and improve their methods. If it had done nothing else, this alone would be a great achievement. They were forced by outside pressure to reorganizé and improve their methods and their machines. When the Lancashire mill girls began to wear Artificial Silk jumpers and stockings, the cotton men learned that Artificial Silk bad to be taken seriously. It ceased to be a joke. There are now 1,200 textile manufacturers in Lancashire who are using Artificial Silk in some form or other, mostly in the making of shirtings, linings and fancy dress goods. They are combining it with mercerized cotton very successfully. They are finding that it is enabling them to win back their foreign trade. : In 1927, the Artificial Silk manufacturers, TTH

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