Arnold Wolfensberger

Arnold Wolfensberger is known for Theory of Silk Weaving, a technical treatise published in 1921 by The American Silk Journal in New York. The book was presented as a practical guide to the construction and analysis of silk weaves, covering plain, novelty, and Jacquard fabrics, and it included a large set of plates for study and reference.

The surviving bibliographic record also identifies him as a graduate of the Textile Institute of Zurich, Switzerland. Beyond that, easily confirmed biographical details appear to be scarce, so he is remembered mainly through his writing rather than through a well-documented personal history.

That gives his work a special kind of interest today: it reads not just as an author's book, but as a snapshot of textile education and silk-manufacturing knowledge in the early twentieth century.