American Silk, 1830-1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts

by Madelyn Shaw, Marjorie Senechal, Jacqueline Field

At one time America's silk industry was the largest in the world. Silk was late to be industrialized, well after cotton and wool. Nonetheless, nineteenth-century American entrepreneurs rapidly built a silk industry with levels of production once unimaginable. American Silk, 1830-1930 traces the evolution of the American silk industry through three compelling and very different case studies: the Nonotuck Silk Company of Northampton, Massachusetts;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896725898
• ISBN13: 9780896725898
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"