Darshill Silk Mill

Curry House, Kymulga Mill & Covered Bridge, Swayne Hall, The Silk Stocking District and Downtown Courthouse Square ; all listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Prominent local companies included the Ashley & Baily Silk Mill, the Columbia Lace Mill, and H. F. Bruner & Sons.

The Ashley and Bailey Silk Mill, Joseph Bucher House, Chickies Historic District, Linden House, and Marietta Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

* At the extreme southern end of the site, Lombe's Silk Mill now houses the Derby Industrial Museum.

Locations in which artists reside or have put on tours or shows include the Yardley Building, a former Yardley of London soap factory on Palisade Avenue that overlooks Hoboken, and the old R. H. Simon Silk Mill on 39th Street, which has been dubbed the " Union Hill Arts Building ".

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.

Joining the woolen mills was the adjacent " Silk Mill.

When the Iron Company was liquidated, other industries gradually came to Coplay ; the Cement Mill, the Silk Mill, the Cigar Factory and Knitting Mill.

Other early industrial ventures in Jersey Shore included the American Balance Valve and Machine Works ( a maker of railroad valves ), the Susquehanna Silk Mill and the Jersey Shore Creamery Company.

In addition to anthracite coal-mining, it also had silk and knitting mills ( the Eagle Silk Mill became the largest textile building under one roof in America ), stocking and shirt factories, wagon shops, ironworks, and brickyards.

Another element of the textile industry was the Tilt Silk Mill on Twelfth Street, which produced silk from silk worms imported from China which fed on mulberry trees in the building's solarium.

The Bellemonte Silk Mill, regarded as the largest bluestone building in the world, and J. S.

The Diamond Silk Mill, Pleasureville Historic District, and Strickler Family Farmhouse are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Ashley and Bailey Company Silk Mill, William Shelly School and Annex, and West Side Sanitarium are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On October 14, 2009, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to several Stephen J. Cannell series including Silk Stalkings.

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture campus in the former Riverside Silk Mill

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture campus is located in Cambridge in the Riverside Silk Mill, also known as the Tiger Brand Building.

By the early part of the 19th century, Govan was rapidly losing its rural appearance and assuming the character of a town with the development of new industries and factories, including Reid's Dye Works and Pollok's Silk Mill.

Both industries have left a permanent mark on the town in the form of the many places with textile related names, for example, Dyer's Wynd, Cotton Street, Thread Street, Shuttle Street, Lawn Street, Silk Street, Mill Street, Gauze Street and Incle Street.

There is a Tesco on London Road, a Co-op on Silk Mill Way and a Marks & Spencer food store in Dolphin Square that opened on 9 October 2007.

Traditionally, Bursa was famous for being the largest center of silk trade in the Byzantine and later the Ottoman empires, during the period of the lucrative Silk Road.

This was a slow process which happened naturally through normal spreading of trade, with the silk and spice trade via the Silk Road being the prime vector.

Jonathan Silk has argued that the term " Hinayana " was used to refer to whomever one wanted to criticize on any given occasion, and did not refer to any definite grouping of Buddhists.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

Khazaria was one of the major arteries of commerce between northern Europe and southwestern Asia, as well as a connection to the Silk Road.

At the same time, the area of present Kyrgyzstan was an important link in the Silk Road, as attested by several Nestorian gravestones.

It was an important stop on the ancient Silk Road.

In 1532 he attempted to settle, but was driven off following the Battle of Cumucurapo ( In English The Place of the Silk Cotton Tree ).

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.

Eventually, the Silk Road was formed.

The Silk Road was also a pathway for intruders, namely the Turkic-Mongol peoples of Central Asia.

The use of a water pipe for smoking was introduced in China during the late Ming Dynasty ( 16th century ), along with tobacco, through Persia and the Silk Road.

With its large population base, the dynasty was able to raise professional and conscripted armies of hundreds of thousands of troops to contend with nomadic powers in dominating Inner Asia and the lucrative trade routes along the Silk Road.

Emperor Tang Xuanzong brought the Middle Kingdom to its golden age while the Silk Road thrived, with sway over Indochina in the south, and to the west Tang China was master of the Pamirs ( modern-day Tajikistan ) and protector of Kashmir bordering Persia.

The first mention of Turks was in a Chinese text that mentioned trade of Turk tribes with the Sogdians along the Silk Road.

The Travels of Marco Polo, where Polo records his journey along the Silk Road, describes Samarkand as a " a very large and splendid city ..." Here also is related the story of a Christian church in Samarkand, which miraculously remained standing after a portion of its central supporting column was removed.

Silk fabric was first developed in ancient China, with some of the earliest examples found as early as 3500 BC.

Silk was in great demand, and became a staple of pre-industrial international trade.

This trade was so extensive that the major set of trade routes between Europe and Asia came to be known as the Silk Road.

Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the civilizations of China, India, Persia, Europe and Arabia.

Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, many other goods were traded, and various technologies, religions and philosophies, as well as the bubonic plague ( the " Black Death "), also traveled along the Silk Routes.

Soon after Genghis Khan died, the Silk Road was in the hand of Genghis Khans ' daughters.

The disappearance of the Silk Road following the end of the Mongols ' reign was one of the main factors that stimulated the Europeans to reach the prosperous Chinese empire through another route, especially by sea.

The last link of a railway route along the Silk Road was completed in 1990, when the railway systems of China and Kazakhstan connected in Alataw Pass ( Alashan Kou ).

Though Dioscurides ' description of ρηον or ρά, a root brought to Greece from beyond the Bosphorus may have included rhubarb, the commerce did not become securely established until Islamic times, when it was imported along the Silk Road, reaching Europe in the 14th century through the ports of Aleppo and Smyrna, and becoming known as " Turkish rhubarb ".