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• Textiles and Clothing Along the Silk Roads (Paris: UNESCO; Hangzhou: China National Silk Museum, 2022), ed. by Feng Zhao and Marie-Louise Nosch (PDF with commentary at UNESCO)
• Silk: Its Production and Manufacture, by Luther Hooper (PDF at Arizona)
• Textiles (revised edition; New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1922), by A. F. Barker
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• Textiles (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by A. F. Barker
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• Textiles (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1910), by A. F. Barker
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• Description of standard American skein, March, 1902, ([New York?, 1909]), by Silk association of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on embroidery, crochet and knitting ... (New York, M. Heminway & Sons Silk Co., 1899), by George C. Perkins, Anna Grayson Ford, and M. Heminway & Sons Silk Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie de la fabrication des étoffes de soie. (1841), by Jean Claude Cussinet and Jules Meunier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannis Coleri De bombyce dissertatio. (Giessae Hassorum [i.e. Giessen] : Typis & sumptibus Friderici Kargeri, anno aerae Christ. 1665), by Johannes Colerus, Friedrich Karger, and Adam Tribbechow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement and present state of the silk manufacture. (Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, 1832), by George Richardson Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• First national silk convention : [exhibition] City Hall, Paterson, N.J., October 12th, to 21st., 1915 / ([Paterson, N.J.? : Chamber of Commerce?, 1915?]), by R. Meyer Riefstahl, Paterson (N.J.). City Hall, and N.J.) National Silk Convention (1st : Paterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swiss silk bolting cloth. (Zürich : A. Wydler, [between 1914 and 1919?]), by Albert Wydler (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il vermicello dalla seta, del Corsvccio da Sascorbaro : nvovamente venuto in luce. (In Rimino : Appresso Gio. Simbeni, 1581), by Giovanni Andrea Corcucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sericulture [in the United States ... (n.p.], 1903), by Silk Association of America (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new American orchardist; or, An account of the most valuable varieties of fruit of all climates, adapted to cultivation in the United States, with their history, modes of culture, management, uses & c. With an appendix on vegetables, ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers, the agricultural resources of America, and on silk, & c. (Boston, Otis, Broaders, and company, 1846), by William Kenrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silk industry of the world at the opening of the twentieth century. ([New York Silk Association of America], 1904), by Franklin Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chinese patterned silks. (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1948), by Pauline Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• D'Homergue upon American silk. Report of the Committee on Agriculture on the growth and manufacture of silk; to which is annexed, essays on American silk, with directions to farmers for raising silk worm, (Washington : Printed by D. Green, 1830), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, John D'Homergue, and Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les fibres textiles d'origine animale (soie et laine) (Paris, O. Doin et fils, 1910), by Daniel Zolla (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Seide, ihre Geschichte, Gewinnung und Verarbeitung ... (Leipzig, Verlag von H.A. Ludwig Degener, [1897]), by Henri Silbermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of silk & Cheney silks, (New York, Cheney brothers, silk manufacturers, [c1916]), by Herbert Manchester and Cheney Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faille anglaise. (New York : Gartner, Sons & Co., [190-?]), by Sons & Co Gartner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cedula real, de franquicias, concedidas por la Magestad del Rey Nuestro Señor Don Fernando Sexto ... a el arte mayor de la seda, mercaderes de escriptorio, maestros de passamanería, torcedores, y tintoreros de la Ciudad de Toledo, su fecha, quince de Junio de 1747 (Toledo : [s.l.], 1748), by España. Rey (1746-1759: Fernando VI) and ant. pos. BHI BH FOA 563 Colegio Menor de Málaga (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk; its origin, culture, and manufacture; (Florence, Mass., The Corticelli silk mills, c1911), by Charles Arthur Sheffeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk [microform], (New York, The Ronald Press Company, 1922), by Eliza Bailey Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk, its production and manufacture [microform]. (New York, Sir I. Pitman, 1919), by Luther Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on an inquiry into the silk industry in India; (Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1917), by H. Maxwell-Lefroy and Eric Cecil Ansorge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies of the tryptic digestion of silk : (first paper) / ([New York : The Society], 1911), by Winfield Scott Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anno quadragesimo quinto Georgii III Regis. (London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1805), by Great Britain, Andrew Strahan, Charles Eyre, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R, and Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musée rétrospectif de la classe 83 : soies et tissus de soie, à l'Exposition universelle internationale de 1900, à Paris / ([Paris : s.n., 1902]), by France). Section française Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris and Raymond Cox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der Jacquard-Maschine und der Sich ihr anschliessenden Abänderungen und Verbesserungen nebst der Biographie Jacquard's / (Berlin : Nicolaische Verlags-Buchlandlung, 1873), by Friedrich Kohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Seide, ihre Geschichte, Gewinnung und Verarbeitung. (Dresden, G. Kühtmann, 1897), by Henri Silbermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dissertazione intorno all' origine della seta / (Venezia : Per Antonio Groppo, 1754), by Nicolas Mahudel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soies dans l'Extrême Orient et dans les colonies françaises : les vers à soie et leurs similaires / (Paris : Augustin Challamel, 1902), by Hubert Jacob de Cordemoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silk : its history and manufacture, from the earliest ages to the present time. Including instructions for silk culture on osage orange or mulberry / (Junction City, Kan. : J. B. Wadleigh, 1885), by Mary Matilda Davidson and Mary Matilda. Bombyx mori Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die seide, ihre Geschichte, Gewinnung und Verarbeitung / (Dresden : Gerhard Kühtmann, 1897), by Henri Silbermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sericulture, and silk reeling from the cocoons by machinery : Cultivation of the English walnut / (Washington : Governmemt Printing Office, 1899), by United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammaire des arts de la soie. (Paris : J. Schemitt, 1912), by Henri Algoud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state of the silk manufacture. (London : Longman, Brown, and Green, [1831]), by George Richardson Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die unterscheidung der natürlichen und künstlichen seiden : eine praktische anleitung zur mikroskopisch-chemischen prüfung der seiden für untersuchungsämter, lehranstalten, industriellen, zollbeamte usw. / (Dresden : t. Steinkopff, 1910), by Alois Herzog (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Textiles / (London : Constable & company, ltd., 1922), by A. F. Barker, W. H. Cook, F. Bradbury, R. Snow, and Walter M. Gardner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monographs on the tusser and other wild silks of India, descriptive of the objects and specimens exhibited in the India section of the Paris Exhibition [electronic resource] : and on the dyestuffs and tannin matters of India and their native uses, descriptive of the collection in the India section of the Paris Exhibition /, by Thomas Wardle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kiito kensa seiseki hōkoku / ([Yokohama] : Yokohama Kiito Kensajo,), by Nōrinshō Kōbe Kiito Kensajo (Japan) and Yokohama Kiito Kensajo (Japan) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ...Histoire économique de la soie, (Grenoble, Grands établissements de l'imprimerie générale, 1910), by A. Beauquis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new American orchardist; or, An account of the valuable varieties of fruit, of all climates, adapted to cultivation in the United States; with their history, modes of culture, management, uses, &c. with an appendix, on vegetables, ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers, the agricultural resources of America, and on silk, &c. (Boston, Otis, Broaders, 1841), by William Kenrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laces, silks, and linens / (Scranton, Pa. : Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, c1915), by Mary Brooks Picken and Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soieries d'art depuis les origines jusqu'à nos jours, ouvrage illustré d'une planche en couleurs et de 100 planches en noir. (Paris, Hachette et cie, 1914), by Raymond Cox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silk: replies from commissioners of customs to inspector general's Circular no. 103, second series. To which is added Manchurian tussore silk. (Shanghai, Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1917), by China. Hai kuan tsung shui wu ssu shu and Norman Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Methods of testing and classification of raw silk of the Japanese government : July 1, 1938. (New York : Japanese Government Raw Silk Intelligence Bureau, [1938]), by New York Japan. Raw Silk Intelligence Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of laundering and exposure to light upon some wash silks used for outer garments / (Wooster, Ohio : Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 1932), by Marion E. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silk; the real versus the imitation. (New London, Conn., c1909), by Brainerd & Armstrong Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on American silk, and the best means of rendering it a source of individual and national wealth, with directions to farmers for raising silk worms. (Philadelphia, J. Grigg, 1830), by John D'Homergue and Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutliche Anweisung, wie mit Säung des Maulbeer-Saamens : Pflanzung und Wartung der Maulbeer-bäume, desgleichen Wartung und Fütterung der Seiden-Würmer, auch Haspelung der feinen Seide ; Zubereitung der Flock-Seide, und dem wahren Gebrauch beider Arten Seide, vernünftig und mit Vertheil zu verfahren sey. Nach vieljähriger Untersuchung und mancherley gemachten Proben, zum Besten des gemeinen Wesens an das Licht gestellet, von einem Liebhaber des Seiden-Baues. (Berlin : Haude und Spener, 1751) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk, (New York, The Ronald press company, 1922), by Eliza Bailey Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silk industry of Japan, (Tokyo, The Imperial Tokyo sericultural institute, 1909), by Iwajirō Honda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei. (Berlin, Wasmuth, 1913), by Otto von Falke and Germany) Kunstgewerbe-Museum (Berlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silk throwing and waste silk spinning / (London : Scott, Greenwood & co. New York : D.Van Nostrand co., 1908), by Hollins Rayner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The silkworm; its history and product. (Chicago, Ill., Winsted Silk Co., c1915), by Chicago Winsted Silk Co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Maulbeerbaum und die Seidenraupe : oder, Praktische anleitung zur seidenkultur für Deutschland und die zur seidenkultur ganz besonders geeigneten königreiche Ungarn und Kroazien / (Warasdin : Joseph v. Platzer, 1847), by F. X. Wunsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• La seda en Guatemala / (Guatemala : Impr. de Luna, 1862), by A. E. Laprade and Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País (Guatemala) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk finishing, (Silver Spring, Md., National association of dyers and cleaners of the United States and Canada, [1943]), by Jennie Wisneski Maher and National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the United States and Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monographie de la condition des soies de Lyon, (Lyon, Impr. Pitrat ainé, 1878), by Adrien Perret (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American silk grower's guide, or, The art of raising the mulberry and silk on the system of successive crops in each season / (Boston : G.C. Barrett, 1835), by William Kenrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ornament in European silks / (London : Debenham and Freebody, 1899), by Alan S. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die mikroskopische untersuchung der seide mit besonderer berücksichtigung der erzeugnisse der kunstseiden-industrie / (Berlin : J. Springer, 1924), by Alois Herzog (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Third report of the agriculture of Massachusetts : on wheat and silk / (Boston : Dutton and Wentworth, 1840), by Henry Colman and Massachusetts. Agricultural Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serivalor, the valuation of raw silk, (New York, Clifford & Lawton, [c1917]), by Adolf Rosenzweig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk : its production and manufacture / (London : Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., [1919?]), by Luther Hooper and T. D. Fire hazards incidental to silk mills and factories Raine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• D'Homergue upon American silk [microform]. Report of the Committee on Agriculture on the growth and manufacture of silk; to which is annexed, essays on American silk, with directions to farmers for raising silk worm, (Washington : Printed by D. Green, 1830), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, John D'Homergue, and Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of silk. (New York, International Silk Guild, Inc., [1935]), by Donald D. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Importancia de la sericultura en México : conferencia dada a los alumnos de la Escuela N. de Agricultura y Veterinaria / (Mexico : [s.n.], 1909), by Homobono González (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur le conditionnement le titrage et le décreusage de la soie suivi de l'examen des autres textiles (laine-coton-lin, etc.) Ouvrage contenant les caractères et le dosage des principales fibres et accompagné de tables pour la conversion des titres. (Paris, G. Masson, 1878), by Jules Persoz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report to the department of state on silk and silk manufactures [microform] / (Washington, D.C. : [G.P.O.?], 1868), by Elliot C. Cowdin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American silk journal. ([New York, Clifford & Lawton, etc.]), by Silk Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• A survey of the silk industry of Central China, (Shanghai, [Printed by the Shanghai times], 1925), by Shanghai international testing house and Silk Association of America (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notizie storico-istruttive intorno la introduzione, la moltiplicazione, la coltura del gelso delle isole Filippine e li suoi effetti nel producimento della seta : comprovati più specialmente in Lombardia nel quinquennio 1832-1836 : anche dalle svariate manipolazioni delle sete fino al riducimento in istoffe / (Milano : Presso la Società degli editori degli Annali universali delle scienze e dell'industria, 1837), by Ignazio Lomeni (page images at HathiTrust)
• La soie au point de vue scientifique et industriel : le ver à soie, la sériciculture, le dévidage des cocons : la soie, le moulinage, étude physique et chimique : les soieries, le tissage, la teinture : documents statistiques. (Paris : J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1890), by Léo Vignon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of the collection illustrative of the wild silks of India, in the Indian section of the South Kensington Museum, with a catalogue of the collection and numerous illustrations. (London, Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, for H. M. Stationery Off., 1881), by Thomas Wardle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk dyeing, printing, and finishing / (London ; New York : George Bell & Sons, 1892), by George H. Hurst and George Bell & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dobyvanīe, obrabotka i uslovīi︠a︡ sbyta shelka i organizat︠s︡īi︠a︡ pravitelʹstvennykh i obshchestvennykh uchrezhdenīĭ po shelkovodstvu i shelkovoĭ promyshlennosti v Avstro-Vengrīi, Italīi, Frant︠s︡īi i drugikh shelkovodnykh stranakh. (S.-Peterburg, Tipografīi︠a︡ V. Kirshbauma, 1890), by Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Shavrov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk. (Shanghai : Statistical Dept. of the Inspectorate General, 1881), by China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistique de la production de la soie en France & à l'étranger. (Lyon, Impr. du salut public.), by Union des marchands de soie de Lyon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silk : statistics, 1879-88. (Shanghai : Statistical Dept. of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1889), by China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rapport sur les soies /, by Natalis Rondot, France. Ministère de l'agriculture et du commerce, and France) Exposition universelle de 1878 (Paris, contrib. by Imprimerie nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American silk industry, chronologically arranged, 1793-1876 / (New York : Silk Association of America, 1876), by Franklin Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of silk and Cheney silks, (South Manchester, Conn., New York city, Cheney brothers, [1924]), by Herbert Manchester and Cheney brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new American orchardist, or An account of the most valuable varieties of fruit, of all climates, adapted to cultivation in the United States; with their history, modes of culture, management, uses, &c. With an appendix on vegetables, ornamental trees ... the agricultural resources of America, and on silk, &c. (Boston, Otis, Broaders, and company, 1845), by William Kenrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk; its origin, culture, and manufacture; illustrated from photographs taken at the Corticelli silk mills. (Florence, Mass., The Nonotuck Silk Co., c1902), by Nonotuck Silk Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• American silk manufacture / (New York, 1887), by William Cornelius Wyckoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de la soie. Les soies, (Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1885-87), by Natalis Rondot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romantic story of silk : the strongest fiber known to man. (New York : Silk Association of America, c1926), by Silk Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le ver à soie, son élevage, son cocon ... (Paris, Masson, [1896]), by J. de Loverdo (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of silk waste used for cartridge-bag cloth : with an appendix on the general classification of waste silk / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Standards : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1924), by Frank Robert McGowan, A. A. Mercier, Charles W. Schoffstall, and United States. National Bureau of Standards. Technologic Papers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of dry cleaning on silks : a comparison of the effect of dry cleaning and some service conditions on the strength of silk / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Standards : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1926), by Moses H. Goldman and United States. National Bureau of Standards. Technologic Papers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei. (Berlin : E. Wasmuth, 1921), by Otto von Falke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A glossary of silk terms. (New York : Issued by the American Silk Journal Company, 1905), by American Silk Journal Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decorative silks, (New York, W. Helburn inc., 1922), by Otto von Falke and Germany) Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The silk industry of the world at the opening of the twentieth century ... ([New York, Silk association of America], 1904), by Frankin S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk: its origin, culture, and manufacture: (Florence, Mass., The Nonotuck silk company, c1902), by Nonotuck Silk Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Chinese figured silks excavated by Sir Aurel Stein at ruined sites of Central Asia. (London : B. Quaritch, ltd., 1920), by Fred H. Andrews and Aurel Stein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report to the Department of state of silk and silk manufacturers / (Washington, D.C. : [s.n.], 1868), by Elliot Christopher Cowdin and Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silk, its production and manufacture, (London, New York [etc] Sir I. Pitman & Sons, Ltd., [1919?]), by Luther Hooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances: including observations on spinning, dyeing and weaving. Also an account of the pastoral life of the ancients, their social state and attainments in the domestic arts, with appendices on Pliny's Natural history; on the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper; on felting, netting, &c deduced from copious and authentic sources. (New York, C. M. Saxton; New London, Conn., E. R. Fellows, 1853), by Clinton G. Gilroy (page images at HathiTrust)

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