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

The house is home of the American Labor Museum, which tells the story of Italian immigration in the area, and of the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913.

The Hunan Provincial Museum notes, " This is called Version A of Book on Silk “ Lao Zi ”, because it was copied out in classical official script.

The Museum has an important collection of ancient coins from the Silk Road, donated since 1991 by Linda and Roger Doo.

Many survive to this day following restoration and changes of function: outstanding among them are the Stamatopoulos engine-works ( 1883 ), the Glavani-Kazazi factory ( 1896 ), the Papageorgiou textile workshop ( 1905 ), the Mortzoukou textile workshop ( 1908 ), the Adamopoulos cotton industry plant ( 1908, today a gymnasium ), the Papagianopoulos steel works ( 1909 ), the Volos Electricity Company Plant ( dating to 1911 and today the musical and theatrical centre of Volos ), the Tsalapatas brickworks factory ( 1925, today the National museum of Industrial Archeology ), the Etmektzoglou silkworks ( 1926, today the Silk Museum ), the Spirer Tobacco warehouse ( 1926 home of the Drury University Center ), the Styxnokarpos Factory ( 1929 ), the Papastratos Tobacco warehouse, and the Matsangos Tobacco warehouse, amongst many.

* Silk Museum

The letter ( now housed in the British Museum ) was found in Danfan Uiliq, an important post along the Silk Road in northwest China during the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 ).

*' The Silk Road in Late Antiquity ,' by Peter Brown, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Youtube ( video )

Derby Silk Mill, formerly known as Derby Industrial Museum, is a museum of industry and history in Derby, England.

* Gold, Silk, Pioneers and Mail: The Story of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, by Robert J. Chandler and Stephen J. Potash, published by the Friends of the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library, San Francisco, 2007 and 2010 http :// maritimelibraryfriends. org.

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

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.

Silk is still considered the ideal fabric.

The tree is also known as the Java cotton, Java kapok, Silk cotton or ceiba.

* The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe.

In addition, many albums have been named with allusions to proverbs, such as Spilt milk ( a title used by Jellyfish and also Kristina Train ), The more things change by Machine Head, Silk purse by Linda Rondstadt, Another day, another dollar by DJ Scream Roccett, The blind leading the naked by Vicious Femmes, What's good for the goose is good for the gander by Bobby Rush, Resistance is Futile by Steve Coleman.

Silk production is an important cottage industry and contributes significantly to the economy.

* The Xiongnu occupy the Gansu area, the economically important province is situated along the Silk Road.

* Silk is a protected palace industry in the Byzantine Empire.

* Silk is exported to Europe from China.

On the contrary, the Silk Road passed Chinese products and inventions to the Western regions, including paper: papermaking originated in China and is considered one of Four Great Inventions.

* The Doctor Who episode Marco Polo is set in this year, where Doctor Who joins Marco Polo travelling along the Silk Road toward Beijing.

The city is most noted for its central position on the Silk Road between China and the West, and for being an Islamic centre for scholarly study.

Along with Bukhara, Samarkand is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, prospering from its location on the trade route between China and the Mediterranean ( 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.

* The Road to Samarcand is one of Patrick O ' Brian's early novels ( 1954 ) about an American teenage boy, the son of recently deceased missionary parents, who travels from China with a small party on the Silk Road en route to the West.

Silk is produced year round in Thailand by two types of silkworms, the cultured Bombycidae and wild Saturniidae.

" Silk is widely produced today.

Silk is worn by people as a symbol of royalty while attending functions and during festivals.

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

Silk is an animal textile made from the fibres of the cocoon of the Chinese silkworm which is spun into a smooth fabric prized for its softness.

The Silk Road ( from ) or Silk Route is a modern term referring to a historical network of interlinking trade routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as well as parts of North and East Africa.

It was here that the silk farm was situated which supplied Queen Elizabeth II with silk for her wedding dress, though by the time the Lullingstone Silk Farm provided Lady Diana Spencer with silk for hers, it had moved to Dorset.

It is not the same place as the famous Yumen Guan or Jade Gate frontier-pass of ancient times, the entrance to the old Silk Roads, which was situated not far to the west of Dunhuang.

Formerly situated on the Amu-Darya River, Old Ürgenç was one of the greatest cities on the Silk Road.

Its widely known as Silk City of Bangladesh, the National Silk Board ( In Bengali: Jatio Resham Board ) is situated at Rajshahi.

During this early period, Madagascar served as an important transoceanic trading port for the east African coast that gave Africa a trade route to the Silk Road and served simultaneously as a port for incoming ships.

The party of Maës Titianus became the travellers who penetrated farthest east along the Silk Road from the Mediterranean world, probably with the aim of regularizing contacts and reducing the role of middlemen, during one of the lulls in Rome's intermittent wars with Parthia, which repeatedly obstructed movement along the Silk Road.

Both Turks and Persians wanted to dominate the Silk Road and the trade industry between the west and the far east.

Until the mid 15th century, trade with the east was achieved through the Silk Road, with the Byzantine Empire and the Italian city-states of Venice and Genoa acting as a middle man.

According to most scholars, the main sutras of Mahayana were written after 100 BCE, when sectarian conflicts arose among Nikaya Buddhist sects regarding the humanity or super-humanity of the Buddha and questions of metaphysical essentialism, on which Greek thought may have had some influence: " It may have been a Greek-influenced and Greek-carried form of Buddhism that passed north and east along the Silk Road ".

One scholar believes Joktan's family separated from his brother Peleg's near a place called Mesha-see, at or near Mashhad, he theorizes-and went east over the Silk Road toward the Orient, fathering the Sinitic peoples.

There were also trade routes leading south-east to Armenia and the Muslim domains, as well as others connecting with the Silk Road to the east.

From near Babylon, it is believed to have split into two routes, one traveling northeast then east through Ecbatana and on along the Silk Road, the other continuing east through the future Persian capital Susa ( in present-day Iran ) and then southeast to Persepolis.

Maës Titianus, an ancient Roman Macedonian traveller, penetrated farthest east along the Silk Road from the Mediterranean world.

The Silk Road was also in operation, and for the first time knowledge of the far east began to be known.

It also spread east along the Silk Road, leaving many versions of mandu throughout Central and East Asia.

Shymkent was founded in the 12th century as a caravanserai to protect the Silk Road town of Sayram, 10 km to the east.

At Bahlika, the road turned east to pass through the Pamir Mountains and Badakshan, finally connecting with the Silk Road to China.