making the same product. In certain textile lines ... Thread Cotton, ordinary thread..... 11.5 18.6 Cocoon or Real Silk raw (in the gum) .. 50.4 40.9 “' boiled off (gum removed ...

At the time, raw silk became the country's largest export, as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest ...