Filaments are joined to create a thread thick enough to weave into fabric. One yard of silk fabric costs approximately $100. What makes it worth the cost? We spoke to a few experts on the subject ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam.

The best silk pillowcases are billed as helping to improve your skin and hair, while also making for a luxurious addition to your bedding. Silk is less absorbent than cotton – and won’t wick ...

Good ideas and innovation travel easily—and far. Historically, these ideas spread along trade routes. This essay looks at the great Eurasian Silk Roads as a transmitter of people, goods, ideas, ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam.

The Textiles collection at NMAH contains extensive materials relating to Jacquard-style loom attachments. These include designs for fabrics woven with them, cards and sets of cards, a machine for ...

Still it is mostly the silk we remember: an ethereal fabric that ripples like moonlight on water. This Chinese invention so entranced Roman elites that they nearly bankrupted their empire to buy it.

Religious beliefs of the peoples of the Silk Road changed radically over time and was largely due to the effects of travel and trade on the Silk Road itself. For over two thousand years the Silk Road ...

offered worship to Lord Shiva and wove fabrics from lotus fibre for Him. Notably, it was during the reign of Krishna Deva ...

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Taking you on trade routes from from Japan to Britain, this new exhibition proves just how vibrant the so-called Dark Ages really were ‘Ah, the Silk Road!’ you nod, sagely. That romanticised ...