Clothes, food, house and transportation are basic necessities of life whenever or wherever
humans are. Textile industry just provides basic safeguard for satisfying such needs of …

While steam reeled raw silk also played a leading role in China's industrialization during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth century, hand-reeled silk continued to make up a large …

As the old idiom “men's farming and women's weaving” lays out an original picture of a
traditional Chinese family organization, the silk weaving industry in China has experienced …

The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East
Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange …

With the discovery of Portuguese and Spanish voyages extended to China in the 16th
century, foreign economic activities in the Ming Dynasty were further developed, especially …

Ancient Yunnan was one of the most significant regions along China's ancient" Southern
Silk Road." During the Nanzhao period (738-902) of the late Tang Dynasty, Yunnan's silk …

Traffic and exchange on the Silk Road are generally perceived to have taken place more
before and during Mongol rule in Asia than in later periods. That is, in this view the 'Silk …

This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive account of Chinese textiles and
textile technology and deals with the evolution of bast fibre spinning and silk-reeling in the …

Prior to the premodern period or Tokugawa era (1603–1867) raw silk was mainly produced
in Kyoto and a limited number of cities in the surrounding area. The history of Kyoto's silk …