A history of the silk industry from its earliest mention in China, ca.2640 B.C. to the present. Discusses the cultivation of silkworms in monasteries in England from at least the 15th c.; the dyeing process and the uses of silk; the role of Huguenots in English silk production beginning in the 16th c.; and silk producing establishments and their employees in Europe and Great Britain from the 15th c.
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