Silk, cotton, and wool weaving flourish in Saint-Quentin and other towns.

Silk spinning and weaving were carried on in what the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica called " antiquated lines ... silkworms reared in a desultory fashion ".

Silk and cotton weaving were important in the past, but have now ceased to be of importance.

Silk weaving plays an important role.

It was only after Thompson's disappearance that the Thai Silk Company relocated its weaving operations to Korat, a city which serves as a base of operations for the Royal Thai Army.

Although it abandoned home-based weaving in favor of factories in the early 1970s, the Thai Silk Company's Korat facility looks more like a landscaped campus than a factory.

Silk weaving in Khotan

Silk weaving by Uighur women is a thriving cottage industry, some of it produced using traditional methods.

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The Silk Mill is a popular visitor attraction ; although it stopped weaving silk in December 2011.

Norton Fitzwarren is located on the confluence of many fast flowig local water flows, and from the 1700s onwards became the base for many water-powered weaving mills, and after the riots in London, also many Silk Mills, which gave part of the area its name.

Raw Silk yarn was initially imported from China, and the timing and place of the first weaving of it in the Near Eastern world is a matter of controversy, with Egypt, Persia, Syria and Constantinople all being proposed, for dates in the 4th and 5th centuries.

European states initiated efforts at this time to curb Ottoman control of the traditional overland trade routes between East Asia and Western Europe, which started with the Silk Road.

Because of this trade on what became known as the Silk Route, Bukhoro and Samarqand eventually became extremely wealthy cities, and at times Mawarannahr was one of the most influential and powerful Persian provinces of antiquity.

Through use of the land trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade by sail at sea, the Tang were able to gain many new technologies, cultural practices, rare luxury, and contemporary items.

The ruins of a Han-dynasty watchtower made of rammed earth at Dunhuang, Gansu province, the eastern edge of the Silk Road

Silk Sari Weaving at Kanchipuram

The Silk Road gave rise to the clusters of military states of nomadic origins in North China, invited the Nestorian, Manichaean, Buddhist, and later Islamic religions into Central Asia and China, created the influential Khazar Federation and at the end of its glory, brought about the largest continental empire ever: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers strung along the Silk Road ( Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran, Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea, Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia ), realizing the political unification of zones previously loosely and intermittently connected by material and cultural goods.

* The Silk One ( aka Ko Dali's daughter ), consort of Yakub Beg ( Flashman at the Charge ).

It has a bus garage, a shopping centre called The Broadwalk, a library, a large hospital — Edgware Community Hospital, and two streams — Edgware Brook and Deans Brook, both tributaries of the Silk Stream, which in turn merges with the River Brent at the Welsh Harp ( Brent Reservoir ).

In 1854, the decision was made to build a larger courthouse at the south end of “ Silk Stocking Road ”, now Main Street.

* Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks, HarperCollins ( 1998 ) ISBN 0-00-255944-7 ; Marks was the Head of Codes at SOE and this book is an account of his struggle to introduce better encryption for use by field agents ; it contains more than 20 previously unpublished code poems by Marks, as well as descriptions of how they were used and by whom.

While the team was named Paterson, the team played their games at Doherty Field, located off of Main Avenue behind the Doherty Silk Mill.

The Cedar Cliff Land Company ran newspaper advertisements targeted at upwardly mobile immigrants who worked in Paterson's silk industry, offering the city-sized lots for sale at auctions ( with free lunches and brass bands ) held at St. Mary's Parish Hall, and also opened the Cedar Cliff Silk Mill, which became one of several silk mills in the community.

There are several reasons for this, including: the association with cDc ; the tone of the initial product launch at Def Con ' 99 ( including that the first distribution of BO2k by cDc was infected by the CIH virus ); the existence of tools ( such as " Silk rope ") designed to add BO2k dropper capability to self-propagating malware ; and the fact that it has actually widely been used for malicious purposes.

A lavish media party was also held at Chislehurst Caves in Kent, England on 31 October 1974, to celebrate the label's first UK release by the Pretty Things, Silk Torpedo ( the first US release for Swan Song was the self-titled debut album from Bad Company in June 1974 ).

The ruins of a Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ) Chinese watchtower made of rammed earth at Dunhuang, Gansu province, the eastern edge of the Silk Road

In Xanadu is a 1989 travel book by William Dalrymple, at the age of 22 he sets off along the Silk Road from Antioch.

* Digital versions ( page images ) of books by Henry Yule are available at the Toyo Bunko Rare Books Archive of the Digital Silk Roads Project

It commands a strategic position at the crossroads of the ancient Southern Silk Route and the main road leading from India via Lhasa to Mongolia and Southern Siberia, as well as controlling the entrance to the narrow Hexi Corridor which led straight to the heart of the north Chinese plains and the ancient capitals of Chang ' an ( today known as Xi ' an ) and Luoyang.

The ruins of a Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ) Chinese watchtower made of rammed earth at Dunhuang, Gansu province, the eastern edge of the Silk Road

Early Buddhist monks arrived at Dunhuang via the ancient Northern Silk Road, the northernmost route of about in length, which connected the ancient Chinese capital of Xi ' an westward over the Wushao Ling Pass to Wuwei and on to Kashgar.

The Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes (), also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (), form a system of 492 temples southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China.

During late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Western explorers began to show interest in the ancient Silk Road and the lost cities of Central Asia, and those who passed through Dunhuang noted the murals and artifacts such as the Stele of Sulaiman at Mogao.

Today silk is mainly produced in Bhoodhan Pochampally ( also known as Silk City ), Kanchipuram, Dharmavaram, Mysore, etc.

Silk panchas, called Magatam or Pattu Pancha in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh respectively, are often used on these special occasions.

Also Saurashtrians, maintain a predominant presence throughout the Tamil Nadu Starting from Salem, a city, To be believed to have derived its name from the Tamil word Selai ( Sari ) ( a traditional Dress worn by Women ) because of the Saurashtrians weavers used to weave Silk sarees ( Pattu Selai ).

She entered the film industry as an extra actress, and first got noticed for her role as " Silk " in the 1979 Tamil film Vandichakkaram.

After garnering much notice and acclaim with her first major role in the Tamil film Vandichakkaram, in 1979, Smitha assumed the screen name " Silk ", after her character's name in the movie.

Silk Smitha went on to star in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and a few Hindi films.

Such was her audience-drawing power that, at the peak of her career, according to Tamil film historian, Randor Guy, " Films that had lain in cans for years were sold by the simple addition of a Silk Smitha song .”.