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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 ...
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.
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.
Fubao was mother-in-law to Leizu, who was the inventor of sericulture, the art of silk production, according to Chinese mythology. Silk and fabrics made from silk are some of the world's important textiles. [2] Silk is believed to have been produced since neolithic times in China. The "Silk Road" was named after the trade in silk across Eurasia ...
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.
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.
He began to teach this technique in 1868, and founded the "Takayama Sericulture Improvement Association" in 1873. At the time, just after the Meiji restoration , the fledgling Meiji government was desperate for means of raising capital to fund the industrialization of Japan, and looked upon sericulture as a main export product which could bring ...
Sericulture or silk farming — the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk in the silk production process. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.