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History of silk
The Chinese knew how to make silk more than 5,000 years ago. An interesting story about how to make silk is known among the Chinese, which says that one day the queen of China mistakenly put a wild cocoon of silkworm into hot water for hand washing. has been The next day, he notices the ability of fibers from the cocoon to recover. He enjoyed this fun act and since then he started to keep and breed silkworms so that he can use their fiber to make clothes.
Gradually, silk fabrics became known as the queen of fabrics due to its unique brilliance, beauty, and extraordinary quality, and its popularity among the aristocracy and the monopoly of its production for more than 2000 years in the hands of the Chinese gave a profitable business to the producers and The Chinese were able to keep the secret of silk production for more than 2,500 years, and the Japanese were among the first to establish the trade communication route between the ancient governments from Western China to the Middle East and Europe called the Silk Road. who were able to find out this secret in the third century. About 550 years after Christ, the Byzantine king Justinian sent two monks to China as spies, and they brought the secret of this industry to Europe by learning the techniques of growing and producing and transferring the eggs of the storm. After that, the art of silk production gradually became known all over the world.
Throughout history, many countries such as France, Italy, and Japan were popular as centers of silk production, and currently more than 20 countries in the world, including Iran, are mainly active in the field of natural silk production. But China, India, Thailand and some Central Asian countries are the main producers of cocoons and natural silk threads.
The history of clothing and fabric production in Iran dates back to before Islam. In Iran, the flourishing of tile industry started from the Sassanid era and reached its peak during the Safavid era.