The silk industry in America. A history: prepared for the Centennial Exposition (1876)
Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 · [New York Silk Association of America] · leaf 14
ducts of our own looms,spindles, and forges by the side of those of all the nations of the world,a fitting time and place to record, with proper modesty and in no boastfulspirit, the efforts through which we have attained our present measureof excellence, and to indicate to those who may come after… … I. The Derivation of Silk. ARDNER, and some other philological writers,tells us that Se, or, as it was corruptly pro-nounced, Ser, was the original name of silk inEastern Asia ; and that hence, the people whofirst produced silk were called Seres; whence,after the silk fabrics became known to…
Silk manufacture and trade
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