THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK 
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is right to-day may be wrong to-morrow. As 
yet, there is no right way that is generally 
agreed upon. There is very little routine. 
Hundreds of clever brains are at work, 
altering, improving and making experiments. 
At any time there may come a new invention 
that will put an Artificial Silk factory out 
of date. The whole industry is changing 
from month to month. No one knows what 
new miracle will happen next. It is a 
dynamic industry. 
For this reason I shall not go into details 
as to the technique. The technique is now 
in process of being created. I shall only 
describe it in a general way, so that those 
who sell or wear it shall know how it is being 
made 
Artificial Silk, at present, is being made of 
spruce pulp and cotton linters—the soft short 
fibres from cotton seeds. These are not 
cotton fibres, as Lancashire understands the 
word. Lancashire wants long fibres—the 
longer the better, but the Artificial Silk men 
want them as short as possible. 
Cotton waste is now being used, too. The 
waste in the back yard of the Lancashire 
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