The Mulberry And Other Silkworm Food Plants Classic Reprint

Author : Thomas Wardle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266685197
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Collection Illustrative of the Wild Silks of India, in the Indian Section of the South Kensington Museum written by Thomas Wardle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook of the Collection Illustrative of the Wild Silks of India, in the Indian Section of the South Kensington Museum: With a Catalogue of the Collection and Numerous Illustrations The term wild silks of India must be regarded as applying to all Species of Silk other than that produced by the Bombyx mori, the worm which feeds on the mulberry leaf, from which is obtained the silk of commerce by regular organised industries in Bengal, France, China, Japan, Italy, Persia, Siam, and in some other parts of the world. For the most part, if not almost entirely, at present, the worms which produce these wild Silks feed on the leaves of trees and plants which grow wild in the jungles and forests of India, or at any rate are not cultivated for silkworm food. An impetus was given to the utilisation of these silks by the display of some of the most important of them at the Paris Exhibition in 1878, by Her Majesty's Government of India, in a collection which I had the honour of being appointed to arrange. Since that time, as new uses have been found for Tusser silk, one of the chief and most widely spread of Indian wild silks, the question of supply has become a most important one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.