DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE THE SMALL PRIVATE SILK PROCESSING INDUSTRIES IN THE XIX – AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY

Abstract

The article investigates the development in Naddnieprianskaia Ukraine small private silk processing industries which throughout XIX – at the beginnings of the XX centuries remained the important component of the national economy. The special attention is paid to studying of the general scales, dynamics and regional features of development of small forms of production of a silk thread, silk weaving, filature, dyeing and an embroidery of silk fabric. The place of small private silkworm breeding in social and economic space of Ukraine is defined, the main stages and the directions of its modernization are analysed. Keywords: small private silk processing industries, handicrafts, small industrialist, social and economic development, modernization, silk, mulberry, silkworm breeding, silk weaving, filature.