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#77 Chinese silk
China Is the World's Foremost Silk Producer
China produces about 150,000 metric tons annually. This is much more than the rest of the world combined producing 78% of the world's silk. Only India has a comparably large industry that produces about 30,000 metric tons.
Top Modern Silk Producing Regions
Silk is mainly produced in the south of the Yangtze River Delta. Renowned silk producing regions are Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan provinces. Cities such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Shaoxing are well known for their silk industries.
History of Silk
The people living in the region were the inventors of silk fabric, and no other culture discovered this process independently. The history of silk making stretches back 6,000 years, and the earliest example of silk fabric that has been discovered dates from 3,630 BC in Henan. Silk cloth manufacture was well advanced during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) era.
Silk Production
Silk worm caterpillars. Watching silk worms eat and live and spin their cocoons is one of the things tourists enjoy doing during a silk factory tour.Silk worm caterpillars. Watching silk worms eat and live and spin their cocoons is one of the things tourists enjoy doing during a silk factory tour.
Silk is a delicately woven product made from the protein fibers of the silkworm cocoon. Silk production is a lengthy process that requires close monitoring.
Uses for Silk
Silk is mostly used for clothing. Silk material in rough form is also used as a filling for luxury pillows and comforters. It is sometimes used for wall hangings.
In the past, silk was used for various uses such as women's stockings and even artillery shells to hold the explosive. Sometimes it is used for surgical thread.
The Silk Road
Touring the sights along the ancient Silk Road trade routes, you'll see ancient construction, exotic art, and the interesting ethnic minority people of northwestern China.
#78 Porcelain Ware
Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating materials, generally including kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C. The toughness, strength, and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises mainly from vitrification and the formation of the mineral mullite within the body at these high temperatures. Though definitions vary, porcelain can be divided into three main categories: hard-paste, soft-paste and bone china. The category that an object belongs to depends on the composition of the paste used to make the body of the porcelain object and the firing conditions.
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