The art of making silk /
Rob Waring, series editor.
- Boston : Heinle/Cengage Learning, c2009.
- 24 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 21 cm.
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There is a silk factory in Florence, Italy, where workers use ancient machines to create beautiful silk cloth. Other factories have modernized and use newer machines, but this factory continues to make silk with machines that are centuries old. How is this silk made? What makes it special?
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Silk --Juvenile literature. Silk industry --Juvenile literature. Readers.