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' Indonesia Trading Company '), or PPI, is the only Indonesian state-owned trading house. Its business is in export, import and distribution. PPI was formed through the merger of three former so-called "Niaga" companies, state-owned trading companies PT Tjipta Niaga, PT Dharma Niaga and PT Pantja Niaga, on 31 March 2003.
This silk is produced from mulberry silkworms (Bombyx mori) reared on mulberry trees. Murshidabad silk is known for its premium quality. This silk is very fine, light weight and easy to drape. [1] Two famous saris produced from Murshidabad silk are Baluchari and Gorood. Historically, Bengal was the main silk-weaving center of India. Production ...
The Silk Road [a] was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [1] Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds.
The trade of silk and expensive clothes set apart the profession of a mercer from that of a general merchant, as was formally outlined under trading regulations in London; as a major trading hub of the time, the number of mercers was sufficiently extensive as to allow certain goods to be clearly defined as mercery, in laws specifically aimed to ...
Newar traders listening to the gramophone and playing Chinese dominoes (bha), Lhasa, 1921. Letterhead of Ghorashar business house dated 1958. Newar traders exported finished products from Nepal and India to Tibet and brought back goods from Tibet and other parts of Central Asia.
The acquisition also broke the Chinese and Persian silk monopolies. [8] The resulting monopoly was a foundation for the Roman economy for the next 650 years until its demise in 1204. [11] Silk clothes, especially those dyed in imperial purple, were almost always reserved for the elite in Byzantium, and their wearing was codified in sumptuary ...
In the time of the Roman Empire, silk textiles reached the West overland via the Silk Road across Asia from Han China, passing through the Parthian Empire and later Sassanid Empire to trading centers in Syria. Imports of raw silk, silk yarn, and finished fabrics are all recorded, but the techniques of producing these textiles from the silkworm ...
Steel Industrials Kerala Limited (Steel Industrials Limited Kerala [2] or SILK) is a state-owned steel manufacturing company in the state of Kerala, India. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ unreliable source? ] The company manufactures steel castings, does structural fabrications, building of small vessels and barges, breaking of ships and vessels.