Contents: For many centuries, China was the world's sole producer of silk and silk fabrics, which found their way to every nook and cranny of the globe through trade and other types of exchanges.

Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

Researchers from the China National Silk Museum and the ... Tests confirmed that silk fibroin was in the fabric remains and ash layers. Mulberry silk was also identified as the material that ...

Chinese researchers have allegedly found a novel way to solve long-term stealth coating integrity with an ancient silk-weaving technique called “jacquard weaving.” This method could, they claim, help ...

Made from premium mulberry silk, the fabric undergoes a complex, laborintensive production process that includes repetitive ...

cultivation of silk has been an integral branch of Suzhou’s past. Cultivation and trade of the fabric in China as a whole dates back over 5,000 years. Silks were originally reserved for the ...

Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...

Recent revelations by defence industry researchers suggest that cutting-edge stealth technology aboard China ... fabric inspired by Han dynasty (206BC-AD220) jacquard looms – a silk-weaving ...

Waves of Fortune: China's Maritime Silk Road is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...