Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . de useful. So she col-lected many of them, nurtured them with the greatest care, andfinally succeeded in making silk thread out of which she wove beau-tiful cloths. As a perpetual reward she received divine honors andis known as the Goddess of Silk. Over 2,000 years later the artwas carried to Japan by four Chinese mai
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . de useful. So she col-lected many of them, nurtured them with the greatest care, andfinally succeeded in making silk thread out of which she wove beau-tiful cloths. As a perpetual reward she received divine honors andis known as the Goddess of Silk. Over 2,000 years later the artwas carried to Japan by four Chinese maidens, who instructed theJapanese court and people how to weave both plain and figuredgoods. In their honor a temple was erected in the province of Settsu,and the industry was encouraged and developed until it became ofnational importance. About the same time, tradition has it, a Chineseprincess carried the eggs of the insect, and the seed of the mulberrytree, on the leaves of which it feeds, to Khotan in her head dress andinstituted the culture of silk there. From there sericulture spreadsouthward to India and westward to Central Asia and Persia. The first notice of the silkworm in Western literature is byAristotle who speaks of it as: A great worm which has horns and 11.
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