. The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed. Flax fibre x 200 Silk fibre x 300 diameters. A andB show the gum on the fibre; C,the clean fibre. ENLARGED REPRODUCTIONS OF TEXTILE FIBRES {From F. H. Bowmans The Structure of the Cotton Fibre, Courtesy of TheMacmillan Company) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 49 century on, efforts were made by the French kings to es-tablish the production of silkworms and the growth ofthe mulberry-trees, but without success until the reign of(^ Henry of Navarre. This energet
. The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed. Flax fibre x 200 Silk fibre x 300 diameters. A andB show the gum on the fibre; C,the clean fibre. ENLARGED REPRODUCTIONS OF TEXTILE FIBRES {From F. H. Bowmans The Structure of the Cotton Fibre, Courtesy of TheMacmillan Company) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 49 century on, efforts were made by the French kings to es-tablish the production of silkworms and the growth ofthe mulberry-trees, but without success until the reign of(^ Henry of Navarre. This energetic monarch planted about Paris a large groveof mulberry-trees under the direction of Ollivier de Serres,a skilled agriculturist, distributed the eggs, and offeredbounties for silk and the most productive trees. The ex-periment failed, and the people, irritated by the loss ofprofit, rooted up the trees, destroyed the worms, and gaveup the industry. Persisting, however, the king converted a large orangegrove on his own estate into a mulberry grove, and soonhad a quantity of silk. His success shamed the peoplewho had given up silk growing, and they resumed the
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