Silk was invented by Xilingshi she was trying to find out what was distructing her mullberry bushes when she saw a little worm spinning a shinney glossy case on top of them and thats how Xilingshi created silk
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Were was silk invented? What dynasty invented the silk? Where in china was silk invented? What province was silk invented in? Which province in china was silk made? In what province was silk made in China? Where was silk invented in Chinawhat province?
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This process was invented in AD 105 by Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese official and member of the Chinese Imperial Court, about 2000 years ago; he originally used the waste from silk production. Early Chinese paper was made from the bark of the mulberry tree and other plant fibers...
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When did the Chinese invent silk? ... When did the Chinese invent silk? What did they wear before they used silk? ... It is also believed that Hsi-ling Shih invented the loom to weave the silk and make it into garments.
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Sericulture or silk production has a long and colorful history unknown to most people. For centuries the West knew very little about silk and the people who made it. Pliny, the Roman historian, wrote in his Natural History in 70 BC "Silk was obtained by removing the down from the leaves with the help of water…".
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Silk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from cocoons made by the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori reared ...
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According to Confucius, it was in 2640 B.C. that the Chinese princess Xi Ling Shi was the first to reel a cocoon of silk which, legend also has it, had dropped into her cup of tea.
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The Chinese invented the process of mass production in book printing they called slik-screeen printing. Important books were often printed on silk cloth for travelers to carry with them as guidebooks and maps.
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The term Silk Road was invented by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richtofen in 1877. But the history of this route goes back to ancient times, as far as the third to second millennium BCE. Some other roads directly connected with Tajikistan existed before the Silk Road:
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They adopted Buddhism and spread its teaching throughout the Silk Road, including China. The Central Asian merchants and missionaries spread not only Buddhism, but also ideas about the construction and decoration of temples and the depiction of Buddhas and bodhisattvas to China.
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