Silk: Processing, Properties and Applications, Second Edition, examines all aspects of silk technology, including its manufacture, processing, properties, structure-property relationships, dyeing, printing and finishing, and applications. This new edition is updated and expanded to include the very latest developments in silk production. Detailed chapters discuss silk reeling and silk fabric manufacture, the structural aspects of silk, its mechanical and thermal properties, and silk dyeing. Further chapters focus on the latest developments in terms of processing and applications, covering emerging topics, such as spider silks, non-mulberry silks, the printing and finishing of silk fabrics, and by-products of the silk industry. This book will be a highly valuable source of information for textile technologists, engineers and manufacturers, fiber scientists, researchers and academics in natural fibers or textile technology. Offers in-depth coverage of silk production, properties and structure-property relationships Provides an authoritative reference on sericulture, silk fabric processing and applications of silk Expanded to include non-mulberry silks, printing and finishing of silk fabrics, and by-products of sericulture

Excerpt from The Silk Industry of the World at the Opening of the Twentieth Century In this pamphlet it is not deemed necessary to describe what raw silk is, or how it is grown, or what the processes of sericulture and the silk worm are. Numerous publications, both in this country and abroad, give this information very fully, and it seems superfluous to reproduce it. The aim here is to trace the development of the silk industry in the principal countries which manufacture silk fabrics, to describe the processes of manufacture, and to indicate the causes and present conditions of its progress and equipment at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Notwithstanding the antiquity of the silk industry, and the important relation that the principal countries of the world have borne to it from time to time, it is plainly evident that the silk industry of to-day is a modern achievement. The major portion of the pamphlet was originally prepared by the writer as an article for the "Encyclopedia Americana" an entirely new work from the Twentieth Century point of view, now being published in 16 volumes by the Scientific American Compiling Department. It is now reprinted by the Silk Association of America for distribution among its members, with "copyright" permission of the publishers of the "Encyclopedia Americana." 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.

This Book Presents A Comprehensive Exposition Of Silk Technology And Covers Various Aspects Of Post Cocoon Technology, Right From Cocoon Formation And Reeling Upto Fabric Finishing In Substantial Detail. The Chapter On Silk Reeling In Particular, Is Exemplary, Furnishing All The Minute Process Techniques.The Indian Standards Of Raw Silk Testing And Grading Have Been Discussed In Depth. The Chinese, Japanese And Other International Standards For Raw Silk Testing Have Also Been Included. Major Issues Like The Present Quality Of Raw Silk In India The Measures To Be Taken To Improve The Quality And The Status Of Indian Silk Industry Have Been Elaborately Described.The Chapters On Weaving And Wet Processing Of Silk Describe The Process And The Factors Involved Therein. Detailed Projects On Silk Reeling, Twisting Weaving And Wet Processing Units Have Been Included.The Original Data Several Tables Illustrations And The Detailed Analysis Of Research Data Provided, Make This A Unique Source Of Information In Silk Technology.