Chinese Silk
Chinese Silk
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 TAILOR 100 SILK WOMEN CHINESE QIPAO WITH DRAGON  US $299.00
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 Luxurious Silk Hanfu Dress Chinese Beauty WHF 6053 US $258.99
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 Chinese Silk Brocade Hanfu Dress Noble Gold WHF 6028 US $218.99
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 Chinese Hanfu Dress Embroidery Thai Silk WHF 6062 US $218.99
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 Prada Chinese Style Silk Shirt Buttons Up Size 4 US $210.00 |
 nwot Mayle Ebba dress in marine silk chinese US 2 US $185.00
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 411064 Chinese Cloth Coat Outwear Embroidery 100Silk US $180.00
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 411072 Chinese CoatOutwear Cheongsam Embroidery100Silk US $180.00
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 611348 Chinese Coat Cheongsam Hand Embroidery 100Silk US $175.00
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 Chinese Silk Brocade Hanfu Dress Carnation WHF 6037 US $168.99
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 602050 Chinese Dress Cheongsam 100Silk Hand Embroidery US $168.00
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 508014 Chinese Dress Cheongsam Hand Embroidery100Silk US $160.00
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 Silk chinese brocade skirt Eric Choong Sz6 Free ship US $155.00
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 803018 Chinese Dress Cheongsam Hand Embroidery100Silk US $149.00
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 NEW CHINESE 100 SILK EMBRODIERED FILLED VEST US $149.00
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 NEW CHINESE 100 SILK EMBRODIERED FILLED LONG VEST US $149.00
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 Chinese Chic Peony Embroidery Silk Cheongsam WDA 6073 US $148.99
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 503135 Chinese Dress Cheongsam Hand Embroidery100Silk US $148.00
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 Chinese Elegant Silk Velour Dress Qipao WDA 6048 US $138.99
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 Krista Larson Red Chinese Floral Silk Venetian Cami US $148.50
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 Custom made Silk tapestry Satin Chinese cheongsam dress US $130.00
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 704069 Chinese Dress Cheongsam Hand Embroidery100Silk US $120.00
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 10pcs 18m long hand made Chinese belly dance silk fan US $111.00
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 Chinese Silk Brocade Woman Banquet QiPao US $101.97
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 Da Nang Chinese Cloud silk cargo pants XS NWT$194 Sizes US $99.99
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 Da Nang Chinese Cloud silk cargo pants M NWT$194 Sizes US $99.99
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Why was the discovery of silk so significant in Chinese history?
It became popular in trade and led to the silk road (a series of trade routes connecting China to Asia Minor and the Mediterranean). This led to many cultural exchanges (as well as giving China a monopoly on silk).
Wikipedia, history of silk in China:
Silk fabric was first developed in ancient China, possibly as early as 6000 BC and definitely by 3000 BC. Legend gives credit to a Chinese empress, Xi Ling-Shi (Hsi-Ling-Shih, Lei-Tus). Silks were originally reserved for the kings of China for their own use and gifts to others, but spread gradually through Chinese culture both geographically and socially, and then to many regions of Asia. Silk rapidly became a popular luxury fabric in the many areas accessible to Chinese merchants because of its texture and luster. Silk was in great demand, and became a staple of pre-industrial international trade. In July of 2007, archeologists have discovered intricately weaved and dyed silk textiles in a tomb of Jiangxi province that are dated to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, roughly 2,500 years ago.[1] Although historians have suspected a long history of a formative textile industry in ancient China, this find of silk textiles employing "complicated techniques" of weaving and dyeing provides direct and concrete evidence for silks dating before the Mawangdui-discovery and other silks dating to the Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD).[1]
The first evidence of the silk trade is the finding of silk in the hair of an Egyptian mummy of the 21st dynasty, c.1070 BC [2]. Ultimately the silk trade reached as far as the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa. This trade was so extensive that the major set of trade routes between Europe and Asia has become known as the Silk Road.
The Emperors of China strove to keep knowledge of sericulture secret to maintain the Chinese monopoly. Nonetheless sericulture reached Korea around 200 BC, about the first half of the 1st century AD had reached ancient Khotan[2], and by AD 300 the practice had been established in India.
Un-Cut - Chinese Silk Ft. Jenna G[Calibre Remix]
