Barker, A. F. (Aldred Farrer), b. 1868, Gardner, Walter Myers 1862- [from old catalog], Snow, R. [from old catalog], Cook, William H. [from old catalog], Bradbury, Fred. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 309
student or manufacturershould furnish himself with the small handbook of Inter-national Yarn Tables, compiled and arranged by McLennan,Blair & Co., of Glasgow, an absolutely indispensable officeguide. The question of quality of the silks of various countriesis equally varied, according to… … SILK THROWING AND SPINNING 291 French and Italian.—These are mostly yellow gum silk,in fact the yellow breeds of cocoons are indigenous, andthe eggs of the white races of the far East after a fewyears breeding revert to the yellow silks peculiar tothese countries. Great care is exercised in the…
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