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, 
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