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throw pillows - Japan and China lead in the production of raw si_lk, with India, Italy, and France following. The United States is the largest importer. Sericulture (the culture of the si_lkworm) and the weaving of si_lk have been practiced in China from a remote period. Legend dates this back to 2640 B. C. , to Empress Si Ling-chi, who not only encouraged the culture of the si_lkworm but also developed the process of reeling from the cocoon. This was a closely guarded secret for some 3,000 years. si_lk seems to have been woven very early on the island of Kós, which Aristotle mentions, in a vague description of the si_lkworm, as the place where si_lk was first spun, In the 1st and 2d cent. A. D. si_lk fabrics

imported to Greece and Rome were sold for fabulous prices. Up to the 6th cent. raw si_lk was brought from China, but death was the penalty for exporting si_lkworm eggs. About A. D. 550 two former missionaries to China, incited by Emperor Justinian, succeeded (says Procopius) in smuggling to Constantinople, in a hollow staff, both the eggs of the si_lkworm and the seeds of the mulberry tree. Byzantium became famous for splendid si_lken textiles and embroideries, used throughout medieval Europe for royal and ecclesiastical costumes and f_urnishings. In the 8th cent. the Moors began to carry the arts of si_lk culture and weaving across the northern coast of Africa and to Spain and Sicily, and in the 12th cent.

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