History Of Silk Fabric

Silk was first developed in China around the year 6000 BC, and according to legend, all thanks to the empress Xi Ling-Shi, wife of the Yellow Emperor who ruled China in 3000 BC. Empress is to introduce the cultivation of silkworms and weaving silk to create a tool. Over this role he was named Goddess Sutra.

Many discoveries prove the long history of silk in china. Like the Yangzi river, in the form of a cup carved ivory silk worm and an estimated age of 6000 - 7000 years. Also the discovery of other advanced silk weaving techniques during the Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220). In July 2007, the experts found that textiles woven with complicated techniques and colorful dipped in a shallow grave in Jingxi province, derived from the Zhou Dynasty and 2500 years old. This discovery immediately the theory, the technique found in the Han Dynasty.

Indeed, in the Han Dynasty, the silk has evolved such that the exchange rate of its own. The farmers pay taxes with rice and silk. Civil servants get a 'bonus' silk when performing. Values ​​and commodity prices as measured by the length of silk. Silk even a 'currency' in trade with foreign countries.

For more than two thousand years of Chinese nation conceal knowledge of sericulture (silk farming) from other nations. Sericulture up to Korea around the year 200 BC, also to India in the year 300. A luxurious silk textiles in many places biased accessed by Chinese merchants.
In Thailand, where the weather is suitable for the cultivation of silkworms, silk is obtained from the two types of caterpillars, Bombycidae cultivated and wild Saturniidae silkworms.

Over the last 30 years the world silk production has doubled, even though there is artificial silk that replaced natural silk. Today, more than 30 countries produce silk, and the main thing is china and japan. When combined, they produce more than half of the world's silk production every year.