 | First published in 1947 by Peter Gaddum, it was based on the knowledge gained during the second world war travelling under the auspices of the Ministry of Supply, procuring raw silk for parachutes.
The present head of the firm Anthony Gaddum has revised and updated the statistics for this, the 11th printing. This informative book covers the elements of sericulture and raw silk reeling, silk in recent times, the silk producing countries, waste silk and by-products and useful production and other statistics. |
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