Excerpt from Silk Essays: Consisting of Several Essays and Abstracts Submitted in the Silk Association of America Prize Essay Competition, 1914 The Silk Association of America offers cash prizes listed below for the best written articles upon the subject of silk. The competition is open to anyone engaged as employer, employee, or technical expert in the silk industry in America, including: the importing and sale of raw silk; the purchase, inspection, testing and grading of raw silk; and the throwing boiling, dyeing, and use of thrown silk. 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.