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Author : Arnold Wolfensberger
Genre : Fiction
Summary : Theory of Silk Weaving is a treatise by Arnold Wolfensberger. It provides instructions on the construction and application of weaves, and the decomposition and calculation of broad and narrow, plain, novelty and jacquard silk fabrics. Excerpt: "The silk industry of America has of late years rapidly advanced to the front rank among the great textile industries of the world. It may indeed be proud of this position, to which that enterprising spirit and untiring energy peculiar to our nation, combined with our great technical and natural resources, has brought it. That we are, on the other hand, not yet at the height of perfection we are also compelled to acknowledge, but if we consider the short space of time that the American industry has required for its development, as compared to the decades, almost centuries, to which some of the great European silk centers can look back, the fact is neither surprising nor discouraging. While it must not be our aim to imitate or copy their ways, inasmuch as out conditions and circumstances are quite different from theirs, we may still profitably study their methods in order to overcome our deficiencies."