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William Openhym & Sons textile sample book pages. William Openhym & Sons was a wholesale silk company in New York. The Manhattan Shirt Company was a subsidiary. The Copper Hewitt Museum has fabric samples from the company in its collection. [1]
Operating as a two-tiered system with village and state level handloom weavers cooperatives, APCO seeks to preserve the artistic heritage of handloom artisanship by increasing the economic viability of producing traditional silk and cotton weaves. The organisation owns a number of shopping outlets in Andhra Pradesh.
William Skinner & Sons, generally sold under the names Skinner's Satin, Skinner's Silk, and Skinner Fabrics, was an American textile manufacturer specializing in silk products, specifically woven satins with mills in Holyoke, main sales offices in New York, and a series of nationwide satellite offices in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Rochester ...
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Silk is an animal textile made from the fibres of the cocoon of the Chinese silkworm which is spun into a smooth fabric prized for its softness. There are two main types of the silk: 'mulberry silk' produced by the Bombyx mori, and 'wild silk' such as Tussah silk (wild silk). Silkworm larvae produce the first type if cultivated in habitats with ...
Alternative names are clothier, which tended to refer more to someone engaged in production and the sale of cloth, whereas a cloth merchant would be more concerned with distribution, including overseas trade, or haberdasher, who were merchants in sewn and fine fabrics (e.g. silk) and in London, members of the Haberdashers' Company.