China is the world's earliest country to rear silkworms and produce silk, and for a
considerable period of time was the only country in the world engaged in this handicraft …

From 1959 to 1960, a batch of silk fabrics from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220) and the
Northern Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty (6th–seventh centuries) were discovered in …

China is the world's earliest country to rear silkworms and produce silk, and for a
considerable period of time was the only country in the world that produced silk. Based on …

Turfan was an important intermediate station on the ancient Silk Road, and some of the silk
fabrics excavated from here provide important information for the study of ancient Chinese …

Silk was one of the major commodities of the Silk Road trade; furthermore, juan-silk, or
undyed tabby silk, even functioned as currency in China since the Han (206 BCE–220 CE) …

" This book is a collection of Nai Xia's quintessential works on Silk Road studies. A key
resource in the field of Silk Road Archaeology, it features in-depth content, a broad range of …

From termined the requirements the very by technical beginning of its factors processing, of
textile that included production, the structure the nature woven of of the patterns the loom …

Silk yarn may be transformed according to three distinct processing sequences, each
producing silk cloths with specific aesthetic qualities. But only silks considered as …

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Portuguese and Spanish successively opened up two trade
routes through the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, establishing the Maritime Silk Road …