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textile and clothing industry.

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The Silk Industry.

The Swedish silk industry, at present of exceedingly unimportant extent, ought
to be regarded as a relic from the time when the people and the ruling princes
always regarded it as essential to a country’s welfare to introduce and encourage
every industry at any price, whether it had any probability of flourishing in that
country or no.

By the middle of the seventeenth century, there was a silk manufactory
with 50 looms in Stockholm, and in 1673 Jurgen. Enhorn from Hamburg
obtained leave to set up a silk manufactory in Gothenburg or Landskrona, where
plush, velvet, and silk ribbons might also be manufactured. The sale was bad in
consequence of the import, on account of which all such was forbidden in 1683,
and a special silk-house established under government control, all silk stuffs having
to be furnished with its stamp and seal. The silk was brought from Persia and
other places in Asia, also from Southern Europe. After the long wars of Charles XII,
the silk trade led a languishing life, but recovered again under the eighteenth
century’s ardent system of protection and bonuses.

Strehlenert’s Machine for Spinning Artificial Silk.

In the middle of this last named century, many attempts were made to
introduce the oultivation of silkworms into Sweden. In 1750, there were for this
purpose something like 100,000 white mulberry trees to be seen in Lund, native
silk was actually produced in spite of the northern latitude, and the State supported
the project with bonuses and grants, in the hope that it might call into being a
new native industry. In 1830, a »Society for promoting the rearing of native silk
worms» was established, under the patronage of the then Crown Princess Josephine,
and with illustrious men of science, such as Berzelius, Sven Nilsson, and many
others, as members. The production of silk was, however, never especially large,
possibly 10 or 12 kilograms per annum; and more particularly after the yearly
Government subvention of 4,000 kronor was withdrawn in 1876, one may safely
state that this undertaking lost all significance as far as Swedish trade was con-

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