Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook


Loom room, Haskell Silk Mill, Westbrook, 1907

Loom room, Haskell Silk Mill, Westbrook, 1907
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Maine Historical Society

The warp is run through a sizing or stiffening bath to increase strength. Haskell high-quality silk fabrics often had 600 picks or threads woven across per inch.

Silk weaving was skilled work. Breaks or knots show in the finished fabric.

The workforce and weavers who first built the Haskell name were women. From photographic evidence it is apparent that by 1907 men did the weaving and women worked spinning, throwing and warping.

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