“They can’t fly,” says the manager of the Brochier Soieries silk shop in the old quarter ... It’s the size of a robin’s egg and yellow as a lemon. All around is a delicate mesh of ...

The ethereal fabric that we now call silk has threaded its way ... wife of the Yellow Emperor (the legendary ancestor of all Chinese people), as the inventor of sericulture. Like almost all ...

HKU] Prized by Chinese and foreign merchants as an essential commodity on a vast trade network, silk had numerous purposes: as fabric for garments, as a form of currency (until the introduction of ...

It’s only when you come here that you realize just how much time and effort goes into producing just one piece of silk fabric ... “Silk is a tradition for Chinese people,” said 28-year ...

As silk fabrics became ... Two merchants show fabric to potential buyers in this Roman bas-relief from the second century A.D. In A.D. 166, Chinese chroniclers recorded that ambassadors from ...

The story of silk begins in China, where it was supposedly woven into the fabric of society around 2700 B.C.E. According to ancient Chinese lore, the wife of the Yellow Emperor was sipping hot tea ...