THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK 
wrights and Hargreaves and Cromptons of 
to-day. Here, at last, is a chance to introduce 
the most automatic machinery, such as the 
textile trade has never known. 
Already, Courtaulds are making two special 
fibres for hats. Both are produced from 
Viscose that costs only 2d. a pound. The 
one resembles felt and the other resembles 
straw. 
Furs, too, are now being made from Arti- 
ficial Silk. They are natural enough, says a 
London editor, “ to make leopards, squirrels 
and other animals turn green with envy.” 
Looking still further ahead, it seems clear 
that Artificial Silk will create a revolution in 
house decoration and furnishing. We shall 
want more varnishes and enamels—more 
bright colours in our rugs and carpets and 
curtains and cushions. A woman who wears 
silk stockings will soon want a silk home to 
live in. One silk thing suggests another. 
Even the jewellers, now so depressed, may 
take heart, when they realize what Artificial 
Silk will eventually do for the jewellery trade. 
Silk clothes demand jewellery. Cotton clothes 
do not. Silk is the natural background for 
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