silk, animalfibreproduced by certaininsectsandarachnidsas building material for cocoons and webs, some of which can be used to make fine fabrics. In commercial use, silk is almost entirely limited to filaments from thecocoonsof domesticatedsilkworms(caterpillars of severalmothspecies belonging to the ...
andflaxfibres were used as textile materials in ancient Egypt;cottonwas used in India by 3000bce; and silk production is mentioned in Chinese chronicles dating to about the same period. The history of spinningtechnologywill be touched on below in the sectionProduction of yarn: Spinningand that ...
The history of silk dates back to ancient China, where it was first made. Although the methods used to make silk were once...
Why is it called 'Silk' Road? China was the first country in the world to breed silkworms and producesilk fabric. This craft skill reached a fairly advanced level in theZhou Dynasty(1046 – 256 BC). As the major export to Europe, and being the representative handicraft of this ancient co...
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz Read 2 Cotton: the Fabric that made the Modern World by Giorgio Riello Read 3 The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World ...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SILK Comfortable to wear no matter if the weather is hot or cold, silk is as popular today as it was 5, 000 years ago when it was first manufactured. However the history of silk has not always been as smooth as the fabric itself. Today's ...
real on silk fabric. Viewers can even make out a single strand of a cat's fur. A single silk thread can be split into 16 or more strands, which in most cases are too thin to be seen. The studio provides magnifying glasses for visitors to better appreciate the details of Zou's work...
The purses which survive are often heavily embroidered. They may have been produced by professional embroiderers, nuns or by a woman with sufficient funds to be able to buy the silks to make the purse herself. The alms purse of Marie de Picquigny (France 1342) worked on linen in silk and...
“My mother, of course, wore the bonnet, together with a purple and white silk over a moderate crinoline, and lavender kid gloves. I was dressed in white Swiss, much beruffled, but without hoop skirt or crinoline, which was an abiding grievance with me. But my hat…was very gratifying ...
E. A. Budge’sThe Book of the Dead Don’t let the occultism of the examples put you off. After all, the earliest forays into movable books occurred in alchemical and Kabbalistic tomes. As Kiesel, also a book maker, points out: