Report on Silk and Silk Manufactures (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Report on Silk and Silk Manufactures Sir: The undersigned, Commissioner of the United States, and member of the Committee "on Raw Materials and Manufactures of great use or displaying remarkable skill or merit," to whom has been specially assigned the subject of silk and silk manufactures, respectfully submits the following Report: Silk, by its characteristic qualities and uuchangeableness, as well as by the richness and beauty of its appearance, is in relation to textile substances what gold is to metals. It is of all filamentary substances that which gives the finest, most durable, and most elastic threads. Its tenacity is about equal to that of good iron; that is to say, a thread of silk of the same size will support nearly the same weight before breaking, and the textile matter affords an elasticity superior to that of the mineral substances. Silk consequently unites the most brilliant properties with the most solid qualities. Its various, excellent, and advantageous characteristics have made it an object of research in all ages by the different nations of the world. Antiquity Of The Use Of Silk. China, even in our own day the most important country for the production of silk, appears to have been its cradle at the most remote epoch. The Chinese annals attribute to the Emperor Fau-Hi the merit of having employed silk in the manufacture of musical instruments of his own invention 3,400 years before the Christian era. The Empress Si-Ling-Chi was the first to invent silk tissues, 2,650 years before our era, which invention contributed so immensely to the prosperity of her country that she was placed among the Chinese divinities, under the name of Sien Thsan, and even now the Chinese empresses offer annually solemn sacrifices to her memory. As it is the habit of the emperor of China once a year to plough the earth in order to add dignity and honor to agricultural pursuits, so in like manner the empress, by annually visiting the silk-worm nurseries and laboring with her own hands, encourages the production of this valuable commodity. Two centuries before the Christian era the Chinese carried on a commerce in silk with Persia, Greece, and Italy. Their caravans or troops of dealers were protected by military settlements or colonies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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