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  2. Sericulture - Wikipedia

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    Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm. This species of silkmoth is no longer found in the wild as they have been modified through selective ...

  3. Silk - Wikipedia

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    The production of silk originated in China in the Neolithic period, although it would eventually reach other places of the world (Yangshao culture, 4th millennium BC). Silk production remained confined to China until the Silk Road opened at some point during the latter part of the 1st millennium BC, though China maintained its virtual monopoly over silk production for another thousand years.

  4. Assam silk - Wikipedia

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    The knowledge of sericulture probably arrived with the Tibeto-Burman groups which arrived from China around the period of 3000-2000 BC. Moreover, there was another trade of Silk through the Southwestern Silk road which started from China, passed through Burma and Assam, finally getting connected to the main silk road in Turkmenistan.

  5. Bangladesh Sericulture Research and Training Institute

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    The institute traces its origins to the Silk Institute that was established in Rajshahi in 1898, during the colonial British Raj period.. During the post-colonial East Pakistan period (1955–1971) there were two institutes, the Silk Research Institute and Silk Technology Institute.

  6. History of silk - Wikipedia

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    At the beginning of the 13th century, a primitive form of milling silk yarns was in use; Jean de Garlande's 1221 dictionary and Étienne Boileau's 1261 Livre des métiers (Tradesman's Handbook) both illustrate many types of machinery which can only have been doubling machines. This machinery was further perfected in Bologna between 1270 and 1280.

  7. Silk in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    Silk merchants in the 19th century Weaving silk in Khotan, on the 'Southern Silk Road' 2011. Recent archaeological discoveries in Harappa and Chanhudaro suggest that sericulture, employing wild silk threads from native silkworm species, existed in South Asia during the time of the Indus Valley civilisation dating between 2450 BC and 2000 BC.

  8. Category:Sericulture - Wikipedia

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    Sericulture or silk farming — the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk in the silk production process. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.

  9. Muga silk - Wikipedia

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    Sericulture in Assam is an ancient industry without a precise time of origin. Assam was well known for the production of high quality silk since ancient times. The craft of weaving goes along with the production of silk. It grew to such sophistication in Assam that it was known all over India and abroad.