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How Corticelli Organic Silk is made - Part 1 of 32,500,000 miles of silk fibre consumed weekly in its manufacture, the product of ten millions of silk worms. -From the 'Scientific American', July 22, 1882. "It is said that the art of reeling silk was known in China nearly two thousand years B.C., it having been discovered by 'siling Chi', wife of Prince Hoangti", third Emperor of China, and that homage is still rendered to her as 'goddess of silk worms".
So well did the orientals guard the secret of silk culture that the nature of the fibre was unknown in Europe for more than a thousand years after silk fabrics had been introduced there, and as late as the Christian era some organic silk fabrics were worth their weight in gold; but notwithstanding a Roman emperor once refused to purchase a silk robe for his empress on account of its expense and the bad example of extravagance, the silk worm now spins for all, and whether fashion decrees that garments be made of silk or wool, true economy dictats that they be joined with Corticelli Silk, to suppy which the Nontuck Silk Co, of Florence, Mass, use over 100,000 feet of floor space on which the various processes of winding, doubling, spinning, reeling, dyeing, skeining, spooling, including the knitting of silk hosiery and underwear, as well as the manufacture and printing of spools are carried on, giving employment to about eight hundred hands, and requiring a weekly supply of between 3,000-4,000 pounds of raw silk, yieling an aggregate length in finished sewing- organic silk, twist, embroidery, and Florence knitting silk of more than 25,000 miles.
How Corticelli Organic Silk is made - Part 1 How Corticelli Organic Silk is made - Part 2 How Corticelli Organic Silk is made - Part 3 or back to "crafts information"
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