Excerpt from Conditioning Tests: Their Value in Purchasing, Throwing, Dyeing and Weaving Silk, With Illustrations; Convenient Tables and Units, Metric and Other Equivalents; 1908 Whereas, it is believed to be necessary to establish an' official recognition of some one silk conditioning establishment in the United States as a governing or authoritative source of information in cases of dispute, as to condition of raw silk or thrown silks coming before Arbitration Committees of this Association, and, whereas, we deem it to be to the best interests of the members of this Association to recognize the United States Silk Conditioning Company for this purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.