. 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. ng sent by the colonies to England, oftencommanding higher prices there than the best Italian silk. A reeling establishment was founded at Savannah in1750, and the good quality of the Georgia silk was doubt-less due to a visit made the year before by Signor Otto-lengi, an Italian expert, who was sent to Georgia to establisha silk filature for reeling, doubling, cleaning, and twistingthe silk. The quantity of the cocoons received at the fila-ture was so great th
. 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. ng sent by the colonies to England, oftencommanding higher prices there than the best Italian silk. A reeling establishment was founded at Savannah in1750, and the good quality of the Georgia silk was doubt-less due to a visit made the year before by Signor Otto-lengi, an Italian expert, who was sent to Georgia to establisha silk filature for reeling, doubling, cleaning, and twistingthe silk. The quantity of the cocoons received at the fila-ture was so great that in 1759 the export of raw silk fromGeorgia exceeded ten thousand pounds, and the qualitywas so good as to bring three shillings more per pound inLondon than any other silk in the world. The silk culturereached its height in Georgia in 1759, and by 1772 hadpractically ceased. It was not long before cotton haddriven silk culture from the South. Half an ounce of mulberry seed was sent to every parishin Connecticut in 1766, and for a time the legislature of-fered a bounty on mulberry-trees and raw silk. A piece of h5 ^ § >- S. THE STORY OF TEXTILES 53 mantua, 60 yards in length, was spun and woven from herown cocoons in 1770 by Mrs. Susanna Wright at Columbia,Pa., and afterwards worn as a court dress by the Queen ofEngland. By about the middle of the eighteenth centuryPhiladelphia had become an important seat of the industry. During the Revolution the silk industry languished, andall manufacture ceased, except enough to supply a smalllocal demand. Hardly had the Revolution ended before theindustry sprang up with great vigor under the impetus ofbounties. Mansfield, Conn., had become an important silk-raising section in the latter part of the eighteenth century,and here, in 1810, the first silk mill in America was set up,as we shall see later. >. In 1785 a company was formed in Connecticut for theculture of silk, and also its manufacture. The companywhich was formed at Mans
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