THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK

Britain has about 20 Artificial Silk factories.
America has 16. Germany has 2r. Italy
has 23. France has 43. Belgium has 8.
Switzerland and Japan have 5 each. Holland
and Czecho-Slovakia have 3 each. Spain has
2. And the following nations have one
apiece—Australia, Canada, Poland, Sweden
and Russia.

The world output of Artificial Silk was
280,000,000 lbs. in 1927. The production
is rising by leaps and bounds. It has doubled
SEVEN times in the last 30 years. No one
can predict what it will be in 1935.

It is now about 2 per cent. of the textile
output of the world. One garment out of
every 50 is made of it. At its present rate
of increase, it will catch up to cotton in 1952.
Its rate of increase in the near future is likely
to be more rapid. It may possibly catch up
to cotton in 1940.

Never before has there been such a rapid
development in the making and marketing
of a textile. It is a revolution, Nearly
200,000 tons of Artificial Silk will be made
and sold in 1928.

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