Thousands of years later, our desire for silk is no less intense. China, the country credited ... making some 800,000 tons of the opulent thread each year. The raw material for silk thread is ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

the art of silk jacquard weaving.” The technique is believed to have been developed in China around the second century BC and ...

For many, the history of the silk industry conjures images of ancient China, medieval Italy or exotic ... silk is not strictly an enterprise from afar. Silk threads it way through the ...

Thousands of years later, our desire for silk is no less intense. China, the country credited ... making some 800,000 tons of the opulent thread each year. The raw material for silk thread is ...