Legend has it that the process for making silk cloth was first invented by the wife of the yellow emperor leizu around the year 2696 bc. The earliest evidence for silk is the presence of the silk protein fibroin in soil samples from two tombs at the neolithic site jiahu in henan which date back about 8 500 years.

The History Of Silk Fromental

The workers there used some raw silk from east asia but they derived most of their yarn by unraveling silk fabrics from the east.

Where was silk first made. First appearance of silk the earliest evidence of silk was found at the sites of yangshao culture in xia county shanxi where a silk cocoon was found cut in half by a sharp knife dating back to between 4000 and 3000 bc. The earliest surviving example of silk fabric dates from about 3630 bc and was used as the wrapping for the body of a child at a yangshao culture site in. The origin of chinese silk production.

One day she sat under a mulberry tree in the royal garden to enjoy her tea. By the fifth century silk production had found its way to the middle east. By the second century c e silk was being produced in india and a few centuries later in japan.

The species was identified as bombyx mori the domesticated silkworm. There is also evidence of silk dating between 4000 and 3000 bce. Silk dyeing and weaving developed as crafts in syria egypt greece and rome.

According to them the first person to discover it was the yellow emperor s consort hsi leng shih in 3 000 bc. Silk use in fabric was first developed in ancient china. The idea for silk first came to leizu while she was having tea in the imperial gardens.

During the latter half of the first millennium bc silk road opens and silk starts to spread the world. Silk culture largely remained a secret of asia. A cocoon fell from above into the hot liquid.

For centuries china was the only place where silkworms were domesticated and silk fabric was made. Silk has its origins in china. History of silk began in the 27th century bc in china where it remained in sole use until the commercial ways appeared from china to the mediterranean sea.

Still it remained a mystery in the west where artisans learned to dye it and weave it but still didn t know how to make it. It is very difficult to find out with exactness the date of the discovery of the silk but its use goes back to something like 4 500 years. A cocoon fell into her tea and unraveled.