This book, illustrated with over eighty black and white and color photographs, looks at every aspect of silk, from its spread along the Silk Road to Europe and America, and links with Pacific trade routes, to the unique natural history of theMoreThis book, illustrated with over eighty black and white and color photographs, looks at every aspect of silk, from its spread along the Silk Road to Europe and America, and links with Pacific trade routes, to the unique natural history of the silkworm and the mulberry tree, both of which but for silk production would now be extinct.