Corowa book launch honours silk industry pioneer

Updated July 25 2017 - 4:45pm, first published 4:30pm
UNKNOWN HISTORY: Authors Ian Braybrook and Marilyn Bennet stand in front of ruins of the Corowa magnanerie where Sarah Florentia Bladen Neill worked to raise silk worms in the late 19th century. Picture: MARK JESSER
UNKNOWN HISTORY: Authors Ian Braybrook and Marilyn Bennet stand in front of ruins of the Corowa magnanerie where Sarah Florentia Bladen Neill worked to raise silk worms in the late 19th century. Picture: MARK JESSER

A BOOK launch in Corowa on Tuesday outlined extraordinary efforts by a pioneer woman to create a silk industry in Australia.

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