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\"An illustrated exploration of Byzantine culture, its past history and its relevance to design today, looking at the style and influence of woven silk textiles\"-- Provided by publisher.

Discovering Women's Voices. The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words offers a vivid account of the lives of modern textile operatives and challenges the assumption describing their history as merely one of exploitation.

An economic history of the silk industry, 1830-1930 is an ambitious and innovative historical analysis of the development of a major commodity. Doctor Federico examines the rapid growth of the world silk industry from the early nineteenth-century to the eve of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Sustainable Uses of Byproducts from Silk Processing Explore this authoritative guide to transforming the silk industry written by two experts in biopolymers and materials science Sustainable Uses of Byproducts from Silk Processing delivers a detailed treatment of the properties and potential applications of silk sources, by-products, and waste. The book describes the composition, structure, processability, and potential applications of all of the different kinds of silk by-products. Highly relevant to those working in mulberry cultivation, silkworm rearing, and silk processing, the distinguished authors offer information on how to transform silk by-products into new materials, energy, fuel, fibers, composites, food, cosmetics, and feed. Using a valorisation approach to the silk protein sericin and its by-products and taking an application-oriented view of materials sources and wastes in the silk industry. Implementation of these techniques promises to further industries as diverse as cancer treatment, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and environmental cleanup. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: * A thorough introduction to sericin, including its structure and properties, how to process it, and its various applications * An exploration of mulberry leaves, stems, and fruits, including their composition and properties, processing, and non-feed applications * Discussions of the various uses of silkworm pupae, including food and feed, pupae oil properties and applications, biodiesel, byproducts of biodiesel, and the extraction of chitin and proteins from the pupae shell * An examination of the applications of silkworm litter Perfect for protein chemists, biotechnologists, cosmetics industry professionals, and materials scientists, Sustainable Uses of Byproducts from Silk Processing will also earn a place in the libraries of polymer and cosmetic chemists who seek a one-stop reference for current and emerging sustainability practices in the silk industry.

From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes over tea with friends. In Papua New Guinea, bark is stripped from trees and beaten into cloth. Harris Tweed has a particular smell, while Guatemalan weavers use dazzling colors. Uncovering the stories of the fabrics people wear and use from sacking to silk, Fabric combines science, history, tradition and art in a captivating exploration of how we live, work, craft and care.

The Silk Road, established around 130 BCE, was a crucial ancient trade network connecting East to West. It enabled the exchange of commodities, such as silk, alongside ideas and cultural practices between empires.

This monograph is completed with the efforts of some 20 experts from both Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland, it is literally a “concise encyclopaedia\" of Hong Kong in the “Belt and Road.\" It provides a comprehensive introduction to the national initiative; exploring various opportunities for the territory in the “Belt and Road,\" as well as Hong Kong’s cooperation with relevant regions along the routes, including ASEAN, Europe, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Arab states.

Borocera cajani or \"Landibe\" (vernacular name) is the wild silk moth that is currently used to produce silk textiles in Madagascar. This species is endemic to Madagascar, and is distributed throughout the island, colonizing the Uapaca bojeri or \"Tapia\" forest of the central highlands. The forest provides food in the form of plants for B. cajani, including U. bojeri leaves. The species secretes silk at the onset of pupation and for making cocoons. Borocera cajani and its natural habitat are threatened by human destruction, such as bush fires, firewood collection, charcoal production, and the over-harvesting of their cocoons. Wild silk production largely disappeared when the silk industry utilized many people on the island as the collectors of cocoons, spinners, dyers, weavers, and artists who transform the silk into clothes, accessories, and objects. Therefore, it is important to study the biology of B. cajani to revitalize silk production in a way that helps conserve this species and the Tapia forest. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

Ancient mud-brick architecture along the Silk Road has been an under-studied subject in the world literature of architectural history. Employing results of the microscopic and particle size analyses, this paper seeks to characterize a few examples of mud-brick recently discovered at the Bronze Age settlement of Xichengyi in Northwest China, and demonstrate a new type of mud-brick building technique. The field observation identifies two types of mud-brick. While one type is thick and used together with mortar, which is commonly seen in the existing literature, the other is thin and bound together by ramming, which is unprecedented in the mud-brick architecture over the world. The site is located in the Hexi Corridor, a critical section of the Silk Road, and the multi-room layout of the buildings and the wheat/barley crops hint at dual directions of inspiration, but it is yet uncertain whether the Xichengyi community absorbed the mud-brick building technology from Central Asia. The microscopic and particle size analyses, however, confirm that the second type of mud-brick was ingeniously fused with the earth ramming technique from China proper. L’histoire de l’architecture s’est peu intéressée aux constructions anciennes en briques crues le long de la route de la soie. Grâce aux résultats des analyses microscopiques et granulométriques réalisées sur de telles briques récemment découvertes dans le site de l’âge du Bronze de Xichengyi, dans le Nord-Ouest de la Chine, il est désormais possible de démontrer qu’une nouvelle technique de construction avec des briques crues a été utilisée. Deux sortes de terre crue ont été identifié lors de l’observation sur le terrain. L’une est couramment décrite dans la littérature – il s’agit de briques épaisses confectionnées avec du mortier –, l’autre est fine et obtenue par le damage de la terre ; la seconde est sans précédent dans l’architecture en briques crues, pratiquée ailleurs dans le monde. Le site de Xichengyi se trouve dans le couloir de Hexi, un tronçon important de la route de la soie ; la disposition des bâtiments d’une part et la culture du blé et de l’orge d’autre part suggèrent deux sources d’influence possibles. On ne sait pas encore si la communauté à Xichengyi a adopté les techniques de construction en briques crues depuis l’Asie centrale, mais les analyses microscopiques et granulométriques confirment que la seconde sorte de briques intègre de façon ingénieuse la technique de damage de la terre pratiquée en Chine.