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Show Japanese Use Artificial Silk Tokio Japan, greatest silk-producing country, imports large quantities of artificial silk for its beauty-loving people who cannot rfford the real article. ar-ticle. The fibre spun by the silkworm patiently fed by Japanese women in their homes ia more than twice as costly as tha fibre woven in American mills, The frugal Japanese, therefore, sell their silk to more affluent peoples and cover their bodies and art objects with the milled product of their neighbors. |