American Nonotuck Silk Co. Corticelli Teachers' Silk Culture Cabinet related_ch2334-35 Its Technic and History

Its Technic and History

and embroidered doublet

Richard Brettell

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American Nonotuck Silk Co. Corticelli Teachers' Silk Culture Cabinet related_ch2334-35 Its Technic and HistoryDETAILS An antique cherrywood, glass topped specimen box from the Corticelli Silk Mills. It is fitted with bottles of preserved silk worms in their various life stages and examples of both raw and finished silk threads. Used for educational purposes by teachers. LITERATURE Silk: Its Origin, Culture, and Manufacture, (The Corticelli Silk Mills, Florence, Massachusetts, 1911), page 44, illustrated PLACE OF ORIGIN United States MAKER Nonotuck Silk