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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Silk culture and manufacture. (search)
culture and manufacture. James I. tried to establish silk culture in the American colonies, but failed. He sent silk-worms to Virginia and offered a bounty for silk cloth manufactured there; but the planters found the cultivation of tobacco more profitable. Some silk fabric was sent to Charles II. in 1668. Early in the century it was introduced into Louisiana, and the industry was also undertaken in Georgia. In 1734 Oglethorpe took eight pounds of cocoons with him to England. Sir Thomas Lombe manufactured it into, organzine, of which Queen Caroline had a gown made in which she appeared at a Court levee on her husband's birthday. The business became considerable, but finally declined, and the last lot of Georgia silk offered for sale was in 1790. Before the Revolution, silk was grown and manufactured in New England. Governor Law, of Connecticut, wore a silk coat and stockings of New England production in 1747, and three years afterwards his daughter wore the first silk dre
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
cation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV., in 1685, drove 50,000 Protestants from France, and materially aided in spreading the manufacture of silk, crystal glass, jewelry, and other fine goods, in which that nation of émeutes and artists so highly excelled. In 1717, John Lombe obtained by stealth from Sardinia a model of the silk throwing-mill, and set up silk-works in Derby, England. The works afterward devolved upon his brother William, and then reverted to a cousin, who became Sir Thomas Lombe, whose name is also creditably associated with the pursuit of the enterprise. Silk from spiders was spun, in 1710, by Bonn, a Frenchman, who manufactured with this material both stockings and gloves. He estimated 12 house-spiders = 1 silk-worm. The Arachnidae have engaged other artists not belonging to the great college of Laputa, and a patent of the United States was granted to some officers of the United States Army, January 9, 1866. They appear to have found in South Carolina