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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