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Industriegesellschaft für Schappe

Former Swiss spun-silk company

The Industriegesellschaft für Schappe ("Industrial Company for Schappe") was a Swiss schappe (spun silk) spinning company. Its origins lay in the first mechanized schappe spinning mill in continental Europe, founded in Basel in 1824 by Johann Siegmund Alioth.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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ETH-BIB-Basel, Industriegesellschaft für Schappe-Inlandflüge-LBS MH03-0094
Photo: Walter Mittelholzer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

The Industriegesellschaft für Schappe ("Industrial Company for Schappe") was a Swiss schappe (spun silk) spinning company. Its origins lay in the first mechanized schappe spinning mill in continental Europe, founded in Basel in 1824 by Johann Siegmund Alioth.2

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