Early Chinese Silk Production
China is justly famous for its silk production which probably began more than 6,000 years ago. Excavations of Neolithic sites have revealed clay artifacts with impressions made apparently by silk cloth, as well as stone ornaments carved in the shape of silkworms. The earliest find of silk itself, dated to around 2800 B.C., is from Zhejiang province, where a fragment of cloth was preserved in damp conditions inside a bamboo box. Zhejiang province, in southeast China, has always been an important silk-producing area and was probably also the center of one of the major prehistoric cultures.
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