Sunday, April 3, 2016

Textile Textbook: A Stroll Down the Silk Road (12 photos)

It takes a silkworm only a few days to spin a thousand yards of silk fiber into a cocoon, but a fabric mill needs thousands of cocoons to make a yard of fabric. Compare that to around 50 bolls of cotton needed to make a yard of fabric, and you can see why silk often carries a high price tag. Historically,...



from Houzz http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/59487721/list/textile-textbook-a-stroll-down-the-silk-road/
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