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 ofHenry of Navarre. This energetic m
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 ofHenry 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 wo
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