Artificial silk
Seda artificial
- Date
- 1885 · confidence medium
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Joseph Swan
- Field
- Tools
What it is
The first cellulose fibre to imitate the sheen and feel of natural silk, developed by Joseph Swan from his work on cellulose filaments for incandescent light bulbs and exhibited as a fabric in 1885.
What it led to
- basis for the commercial development of viscose (rayon)
- start of the synthetic and semi-synthetic fibre industry
- reduced reliance on natural silk in the textile industry