When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: gutermann silk sewing thread company history and facts images of women videos

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_Ladies_Preparing...

    The painting depicts an annual imperial ceremony of silk production, held in spring. It shows three groups of Tang dynasty court ladies at work. Viewing from left, one figure sitting on the ground is preparing a thread and the other is sewing while sitting on a stool. The right group of four ladies are pounding the silk with wooden poles.

  3. Coats Group - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coats_Group

    In 1893, J. & P. Coats absorbed the Conant Thread Company and assumed direct control over the Pawtucket plant, under the management of James Coats (1834–1913) and Alfred M. Coats (1869–1942). [5] In 1896 J. and P. Coats acquired controlling interests in the firms of Clark and Co, Jonas Brook and Brothers, and James Chadwick and Brother. [ 6 ]

  4. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_clothing_and...

    c. 28000 BC – Sewing needles in use at Kostenki in Russia. c. 6500 BC – Approximate date of Naalebinding examples found in Nahal Hemar cave, Israel . This technique, which uses short separate lengths of thread, predated the invention of knitting (with its continuous lengths of thread) and requires that all of the as-yet unused thread be ...

  5. Amann & Söhne - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amann_&_Söhne

    In a Württemberg industrial biography that was released in Leipzig in 1879, the company was described as the most important and most powerful silk processing company in Germany. [6] In 1880, the major competitive Augsburg-based factory Payr & Mayer was acquired with its subsidiary in Mössingen and the whole management got relocated to the ...

  6. History of silk - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_silk

    Silk was a common offering by the emperor to these tribes in exchange for peace. Silk is described in a chapter of the Fan Shengzhi shu from the Western Han period (206 BC–9 AD), and a surviving calendar for silk production in an Eastern Han (25–220 AD) document. The two other known works on silk from the Han period are lost.

  7. Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_manufacturing_by...

    Since a single thread is too fine and fragile for commercial use, anywhere from three to ten strands are bundled together to form a single thread of silk. [4] Colloquially silk throwing can be used to refer to the whole process: reeling, throwing and doubling, [5] and silk throwsters would speak of throwing as twisting or spinning. [6] 1843 ...

  8. Thread (yarn) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(yarn)

    Some threads can be used for applications up to 800 °C (1472 °F). There are a variety of different sewing threads available which have different applications and benefits. Kevlar-coated stainless steel sewing threads have a high-temperature and flame-resistant steel core combined with Kevlar coating designed to facilitate easier machine ...

  9. Nonotuck Silk Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonotuck_Silk_Company

    The company changed its name again and as the Corticelli Silk Company grew to be one of the world's largest producers of silk thread. The thread was made with raw silk imported from Japan . In New York City , the Corticelli logo—a kitten playing with a spool of thread—loomed over Broadway from a huge electrical sign at 42nd Street between ...