Important of silk today

The Chinese discovered silk and kept it a secret for 2500 years.For a long time only royalty could use it.Despite exporting silk to the West,the Chinese guarded their knowledge of silk strictly.There are many stories about how the secrete went abroad.The Japanese used Chinese maidens with knowledge about silk to smuggle out mulberry plants and silk moth eggs.The Chinese bride of an Indian prince hid those items in her headgear.The secret went to Europe via Constantinople,carried by two monks in their canes.Today silk is available to everyone,although still highly priced.It is also useful in other fields like medicine and technolgy.A new source of silk has recently been discovered in Indonesia.It is a wild moth producing silk thread.Companies from developed countries are been to know more about it.This industry might become important to the country,s economy.



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