This book explores the global development of the production and trade of silk and related industries from a historical perspective. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, it takes long-term movements and global dynamics into account. Covering a wide geographical area, including East-Asia, ...
Silk production is one of the major achievements in Chinese history, dating back about5,000 years. In China, Suzhou is famous for making silk and was once known as "home town of silk". Today we will take you on a tour of the Suzhou No. I Silk Mill to show you the traditional craft...
Silk is produced by an insect (昆虫) called the silkworm. There are many insects that make fibers (纤维) like silk, but there is only worm that produces the silk that is used for cloth. The production of the fibers is part of the life process of the silkworm. A silkworm comes from ...
History of Silk (2) 丝绸的历史 (2) A number of archaeological discoveries showed that silk had become a luxury material appreciated in foreign countries well before the opening of the Silk Road by the Chinese. For example, silk has been found in the Valley of the Kings in a tomb of a ...
Silk production also appears in bees, wasps, and ants as well as silverfish, mayflies, thrips, leafhoppers, beetles, lacewings, fleas, flies, and midges. Other species of arthropod can also produce silk, the most notably various arachnids is that of spiders. ...
unknown outside of eastern Asia until the 3rd century CE. Legend has it that the bride of a king of theKhotan oasisin far western China on the Silk Road smuggled silkworms and mulberry seeds to her new home and husband. By the 6th century, Khotan had a thriving silk production business....
Silk production has a long history and colourful history unknown to most people. Scientific discoveries have shown that silk production began in China around 2,500B.C., although it could be much older. For hundreds of years, China kept the secret of silk to itself as one for the most ...
Scientific discoveries have shown that silk production began in Chin a around 2,500 B. C. although it could be much older. For hundreds of years, Chin a kept the secret of silk to itself as one of the most closely protected secrets in history. Anyone telling the secret of silkworms (蚕...
The origin of silk production andweavingis ancient and clouded inlegend. Theindustryundoubtedly began in China, where, according to native record, it existed from sometime before the middle of the 3rd millenniumbce. At that time it was discovered that the roughly 1 km (1,000 yards) of threa...
have been long closely connected with the natural environment and lifestyle of Suzhou, a city that has a long history of silk production and textile craftsmanship, making it a natural hub for the development of embroidery techniques, according to Zheng Lihong, an art professor of Soochow Universit...