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Show Fig. 96 Shawl. Manti. Cordelia Morley Cox. Silk. Ca. 1875. L: 144 cm. W: 108 cm. Collection of Mary Southwell, Salt Lake City. The Deseret Silk Association was organized through the Mormon women's Relief Society to disseminate information on silk culture and to distribute supplies. Nearly every one of the approximately one hundred fifty local Relief Society organizations had some kind of silk project during the 1870s. By 1877 there were five million silkworms in the territory. (For additional information, see Chris Rigby Arrington, "The Finest of Fabrics: Mormon Women and the Silk Industry in Early Utah," Utah Historical Quarterly 46, no. 4 [Fall 1978]:376-96.) Fig. 97 Separating silk cocoons from worms. Springville. G. E. Anderson. Photograph. Ca. 1896. Collection of Rell Francis, Springville. 99 |
