Research Catalog

Title

American silk, 1830-1930 : entrepreneurs and artifacts / Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw.

Author

Field, Jacqueline.

Publication

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Senechal, Marjorie.
• Shaw, Madelyn.

Description

xxiv, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"Traces the American silk industry, once the world's largest, through case studies of the Nonotuck (Northampton, Massachusetts), Haskell (Westbrook, Maine), and Mallinson (New York and Pennsylvania) silk companies. Examines entrepreneurs as well as history of technology and products from sewing-machine thread to mass-produced plain and high-fashion silks"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Costume Society of America series

Uniform Title

Costume Society of America series

Subjects

• Silk industry > United States > History > 20th century
• Silk industry > United States > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.

Contents

The Nonotuck silk Company of Northampton, Massachusetts ; From Jamestown to Northampton ; Silk in utopia ; "The Silk question settled" ; Machine twist ; The Nonotuck Silk Company / by Marjorie Senechal -- The Haskell Silk Company of Westbrook, Maine ; Small beginnings ; Transitions and expansion ; Product development and marketing ; Reorganization and decline ; The Haskell Silk Company / by Jacqueline Field -- H.R. Mallinson & Company, Inc. of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania ; The making of H.R. Mallinson ; Mallinson silks and fabrics de luxe ; Advertising and marketing : the Mallinson edge ; H.R. Mallinson & Company, Inc. / by Madelyn Shaw -- Conclusion / by Jacqueline Field.

ISBN

• 0896725898
• 9780896725898

LCCN

2006014189

OCLC

• ocm68786671
• 68786671
• SCSB-1422773

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library