women in central and western Asia were using Chinese silk thread with most woven silk fabrics. After the knowledge of making silk spread, women from almost every household raised their own silkworms, and sold the best quality cocoons in the bazaar to make silk cloth. By the sixth century the...
Silkworms(incorrectly spelled silk worms) are the larval form of the domesticated silk moth,Bombyx mori. The silk moth was domesticated in its native habitat of northern China from its wild cousinBombyx mandarina, a cousin which still survives today. Archaeological evidence suggests that occurred abou...
Spiders create webs by spinning liquid protein into silk. Although silkworms have been bred to produce silk for thousands of years, spiders are cannibals which makes them impossible to farm. 蜘蛛通过腹部后端吐丝织成网。几千年来,人们一直通过培育家蚕来生产丝绸,但蜘蛛属于同类相食物种,无法进行养殖。
Making silk was a protected secret in China for many years.In other countries,silk was very valuable.Often it was worth more than gold.It was said that the secret was finally given away when a queen left China for India.In her hair,she secretly carried many silkwo...
Queens also routinely led the seasonal ritual of making cloth from silkworms, a way to encourage silk farming nationwide. Surprisingly, queens and concubines had private financial assets and the right to manage them. These came from taxes paid to the individual palace property they were given. A...
Once found in the wild, now the caterpillars – called silkworms – are mostly farmed. One farmer, 67-year-old Ding Xianquing, has raised silkworms all his life, feeding them several times a day in his one-room farmhouse. China is the birthplace of silk. ...
1A.D., silk was sold as far west as Rome, and all along the Silk Road. It connected China with places in the Middle East and Europe. Thanks to the Silk Road, the communication between China and West was greatly improved. Centuries later, in 1522, the Spanish b...
silkworms produce filaments in only one size (ca. 1 denier), twisted or braided yarns must be used when loads exceed a few grams. Unfortunately, the interstices of a multifilament yarn can be a route for infection. Thus, it would be desirable to be able to produce silk fibers in deniers...
a友情的不同点在中国和西方 正在翻译,请等待...[translate] aThe diagram shows the life cycle of silkworms and the process of making silk cloth 图显示桑蚕的生命周期和做丝绸布料的过程[translate]
aAt centre stage here are the processes and structures through which a firm creates and captures value from a given technology. 在这里中心舞台企业创造并且夺取价值从特定技术的过程和结构。 [translate] aThe diagram shows the life cycle of silkworms and the process of making silk cloth. 图显示桑蚕...