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Chinese silk.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
Among China's many contributions to civilization is silk, the cloth of commerce and legend for more than four thousand years. Initially spun by peasants, woven, and then worn by the nobility, it gradually became an accepted fabric for all classes of Chinese society.
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In its native land it functioned as currency for buying expensive things as well as government offices, and as early as the second millennium B.C. there was a goddess of sericulture. The network of trade routes that connected China, India, and Europe, known as the Silk Road, was one of the world's main thoroughfares for goods and ideas traveling both east and west.
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