PRODUCTS FROM SILK.
RESEARCH IN JAPAN. / TOKIO, October 7. Unable to sell abroad its enormous Surplus of raw and finished silk, the Japanese Government is converting it into silken-wool, silken-leather, grindstones and even cogwheels. Richest market of all, America, having been closed to Japanese silk, the Government has cut production this year to 450,000 bales, compared with an annual average of 700,000. Laboratories at the Ministry of Agriculture are developing a silken-wool believed to he better than Germany’s ersatz wool made from timber. This involves cutting long filaments into short lengths and treating them chemically. The result is a product “similar to wool and exceedingly tough.” / Also the Government claims to have developed a leather from silk which threatens to compete with rat leather in shoes and aa a medium for grinding precision instruments. ( Other products to come from silk are carbon, cooking oil and toilet soap, while the mulberry trees on 'which the silkworm lives will yield wine, jams, jellies and medicines, and the timber itself paper.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 7, 20 October 1941, Page 6
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