STATUS OF SILK

SINGLE MULBERRY SILKWORM grows to a length of but 3 inches, but it ,can weave a cocoon whose sleek thread, when uncoiled ,measures over a mile.

By 3000 the chinese had discovered that the filament covering a silkworm cocoon might be uncoiled and woven into cloth, China guarded the key  of sericulture till a couple of.D.300.By then, through Korean weavers migrating from China, Japan had learned the technique and colouring .

Traders had conjointly carried silk into Europe on the four ,thousand- mile silk Road: civil law forbade men from sporting the material, perceived as too female.

Two persian monks illegal silkworms to Con stantinople within the sixth century, and therefore the art of silk production came to Europe .it flourished there till warfare II ,after that China and japan regained their domination of silk production. Silk remains a mark of luxury standing.