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Silk embroidery on silk - Pearl Oriental art. According to written sources, this type of applied art zarodilsyav Three Kingdoms era of more than 2 thousand years ago. The emperor ordered the kingdom SunTsyuan sister of his chief minister embroider "Hit Kings." Mountains, rivers, cities and buildings were depicted in detail melchayschih per square canvas silk fabric.
For the first time the secret of making silk was discovered in China five thousand years ago. An ancient legend says that once the 14-year-old Xi Ling Chi, the third wife of Emperor Huang Di, which is also called "Yellow Emperor", in the garden of the palace under the crown of the mulberry tree and drank tea in her cup of tea with a tree fell silkworm cocoon. Young Empress and her maids were very surprised to see how hot water cocoon began to unfold, releasing a thin silk thread.
Intrigued, she began to observe the unfolding of a cocoon. Xi Ling Chi was so impressed by the beauty and strength of silk thread that gathered thousands of cocoons and are woven clothes emperor. So tiny butterfly silkworm silk gave to all mankind, and the Empress, in gratitude for such a valuable gift was elevated to the rank of a deity.
More than three thousand years, China has kept the secret of this amazing material, and any attempt to take out the silk cocoons of the country is punishable by death. According to legend, only in 550 AD, two wandering monks in their staffs hollowed out small holes where and hid silkworm larvae. Since silk was in Byzantium.
In India, silk appeared by cunning Indian king, to woo the Chinese princess and as a dowry demanded seeds of mulberry silkworm larvae. Unable to deny the bride, the princess hid seeds and larvae in the hair and out of the country.
The great demand for silk from Europe was the starting point of the Silk Road. Appeared in the Roman Empire, silk was so expensive that worth its weight in gold and was often used as currency in trade, and it was allowed to wear only very rich people. Emperor Julius Caesar showed his power so that the triumphal entry into Rome ordered to pull on precious silk cloth awnings.
In Europe, flowing and gentle to the touch silk clothing valued not only for their beauty and durability, but also for the other no less important quality - it not start insects plagued at that time even the nobles, to sin no excessive cleanliness.
In the 15th century in France, the bed was covered with silk fabrics lovers - it was thought that silk multiplies the power of love. But the fashion of silk underwear for the first time introduced the notorious Marquis de Pompadour.
Since ancient times, China, in comparison with nearby neighbors, is considered a country of silk.
In European countries, China called seres, that ancient Greek meant silk. In Chinese silk denoted by the word sy.
Some of their ancient samples found silk fabrics refers to the last centuries of 1 millennium BC. These findings are presented very different kinds of superfine silk gas, delicate satin, heavy and dense brocade. Even in those ancient times, there were traditional art of weaving and dyeing fabrics various technologies.
