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Silk is described in a chapter of the Fan Shengzhi shu from the Western Han period (206 BC–9 AD), and a surviving calendar for silk production in an Eastern Han (25–220 AD) document. The two other known works on silk from the Han period are lost.
28 Ιουλ 2017 · Silk is a fabric first produced in Neolithic China from the filaments of the cocoon of the silk worm. It became a staple source of income for small farmers and, as weaving techniques improved, the reputation...
Silks were originally reserved for the emperors of China for their own use and gifts to others, but spread gradually through Chinese culture and trade both geographically and socially, and then to many regions of Asia. Because of its texture and lustre, silk rapidly became a popular luxury fabric in the many areas accessible to Chinese merchants.
The first evidence of silk production dates back the 4th Millenium BCE in China, during the Yangshao Culture (Neolithic period). Silk fabric quickly became a coveted item in China. In fact, it was so valuable that only the emperor and his family were allowed to wear silk clothes.
26 Σεπ 2024 · Silk dyeing and weaving developed as crafts in Syria, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The workers there used some raw silk from East Asia, but they derived most of their yarn by unraveling silk fabrics from the East. Silk culture largely remained a secret of Asia.
The origins of silk and its Introduction to the Middle East. According to a legend mentioned in Confucius’ ‘Odes’, roughly 2700 years BC, Princess Si-Ling-Chi, the wife of Emperor Huang-Ti discovered the secret of silk by picking up a cocoon that had fallen from a tree into her hot tea.
Due in part to the influx of numerous Western influences, the traditional system of silk manufacture established during the Qin and Han dynasties advanced rapidly. This was a major turning...
