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Tapping into the silk pipeline: Mississippi entrepreneur finds sweet success in fine apparel
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The Mississippi Business Journal
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March 2, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright Mississippi Business Journal Mar 02, 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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FLOWOOD -- Somewhere in China, a woman sits with a silkworm cocoon in hand. Looking for the one free end each cocoon contains, she anchors it up high and the cocoon gently unravels. The result is one filament -- one mere thread -- of silk.
Thousands of these threads make up a piece of apparel. Obviously, silk production takes persistence.
For Donna Kennedy, a designer and wholesaler of fine Chinese silk and cashmere apparel, a fascination with the silk production process was what hooked her into the business And the persistence part is what's kept her successful.
"I guess I'm like one of those punch clowns -- one that's weighted on the bottom. You punch it and it goes down, but it comes ...
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