The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . 1251 silk garments were generally used by the higherclasses in England. A thousand knights appeared in silkat the marriage of Henry daughter, and silk wasworn by the wealthiest citizens. The earliest officialrecognition of silk in England occurs in an act of EdwardIII. (1336-60) which restricted merchants to manufactureor trade in a single line of goods, and made imperative adeclaration of the line they would engage in before a cer-tain date. Again in 1455
The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . 1251 silk garments were generally used by the higherclasses in England. A thousand knights appeared in silkat the marriage of Henry daughter, and silk wasworn by the wealthiest citizens. The earliest officialrecognition of silk in England occurs in an act of EdwardIII. (1336-60) which restricted merchants to manufactureor trade in a single line of goods, and made imperative adeclaration of the line they would engage in before a cer-tain date. Again in 1455 an act was passed prohibiting theimportation of silk for five years. Although the silk trade was begun at Tours and at Lyons,France, in the thirteenth century, it was not until the closeof the sixteenth century that the silk production was wellestablished there. It is said that the first white mulberry-tree planted in France was brought there by Guipape de from Syria, about 1147, on his return from the SecondCrusade, and was planted three leagues from tree was still standing in 1810. From the twelfth. Fine wool fibres, magnified 300times.
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