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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 156

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ved eleven weekslabor. The piece requires 1696 cards, and, ofcourse, an equal number of throws of the shuttle, and of threads in the weft; 930 threadsare in the warp, and of course there is the same number of bars, of hooks, of needles, andof holes in each face of the cylinder. Werner Itschner… … Pater son, the Lyons of America. ESTLED among the foothills of the Ramaporange, and distant only twenty miles by railrt\wA |£| h from the Great Metropolis, lies the city of3 vf<^yfA>n Paterson, which claims the title of the Lyonsof America. Here the tourist going westwardby the Erie Railway…

Silk manufacture and trade

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