Sentence examples for silk manufacturing from inspiring English sources

Eight days later in Paterson, N.J., then a center of silk manufacturing, another event began that is better known to social historians: the Silk Strike of 1913, one of the biggest union actions to date in American labor history.

After the late 19th century, it became one of the largest silk manufacturing centres of Japan.

This study specifically investigates the economic feasibility and environmental impact of synthetic spider silk manufacturing.

Most of Paterson dates to the early 20th century, when it was the world leader in silk manufacturing.

At home, nobles invested in landed property and city residences, while silk manufacturing employed a large percentage of the Genoese working class.

Spencer learned the machinist's trade as a 14-year-old apprentice at a silk manufacturing company, and later worked at the Samuel Colt factory in Hartford, where he learned arms making.

Her father was an archaeologist and adventurer, an heir to a Lyon silk-manufacturing fortune.

By the 17th century it was the silk-manufacturing capital of Europe.

An old silk-manufacturing town, it was the site during the Renaissance of a hunting villa of the Sforza family, who built the arcaded Piazza Ducale (1494) and enlarged the former Castello Visconti (1492).

Eastern Rome on the Bosporus adopted the Eastern taste for coloured and patterned fabrics, and after 552, when the emperor Justinian I established the first silk-manufacturing industry in Europe in Constantinople, the city became renowned for its luxurious silks and brocades.

There is some tobacco product manufacturing, silk weaving, and other home industries.