those old and expensive methods of production by hand, so as to procure better economic results as well as to produce better commodities.
PART II
The Clothing Industry
The principal materials for clothes are silk, linen, cotton, wool and animal skins. I shall accordingly deal with them under the following headings:
- a. The Silk Industry.
- b. The Linen Industry.
- c. The Cotton Industry.
- d. The Woolen Industry.
- e. The Leather Industry.
- f. The Manufacturing of Clothing Machinery.
a. The Silk Industry
Silk is a Chinese discovery and was used as a material for clothes for many thousands of years before the Christian Era. It is one of the important national industries of China. Up to recent times, China was the only country that supplied silk to the world. But now this dominant trade has been taken away from China by Japan, Italy and France, because those countries have adopted scientific methods for silk culture and manufacture, while China still uses the same old methods of many thousand years ago. As the world's demand for silk is increasing daily, the
