Silk Painters Guild for fine artists Education

These Smith College papers available at the link below:

SILK CIRCA 1840

Midterm papers by students in History of Science 211, Science, Technology, and Silk

I. Science and Silk

The Biology of Bombyx Mori, by Deirdre Deegan

Early Dye History and the Introduction of Synthetic Dyes, by Meredith Dorner

The Chemistry of Dyes, by Olivia Ariezaga

II. Silk in America

Silk in Connecticut, by Kim MacDonald

The Harmonists and Their Silk Experience, by Kristin Shutts

The Shakers, by Ohenewaa Larbi

Shakers and Silk, by Aisha Cupid

Painting a Picture of Northampton: the correspondence of Caroline L. Butler and her husband Edward Butler, by Alyson Shaw

III. Silk Around the World

Silk in England, by Alison Baird

Silk in China, by Julie Sherman

Silk in Japan, by Genevieve Chin and Sindhu Mommaneni

Ikats of Central Asia, by Megan Jacobs and Olivia Goldfine

Representation of the French Silk Industry in Diderot's Encyclopedie, by

Syeda Rubaiyat

Hossain

The Lyon Uprisings of 1831 and 1834, by Erika Budde

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/silk/silkproject/CIRCA1840.html

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