It was an Englishman, Joseph Wilson Swan, wild in -1883 took out the first patent for making artificial silk by squirting a pulp of wood and cotton through small holes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 4
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