The Story of Silk and Embroidery (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Story of Silk and Embroidery Slight, yet strong; and with its origin dating so far in the past that the story of silk and its manufacture is, by the best historians, obscure and unsatisfactory. For silk, as for many other important discoveries which we now enjoy in their development and perfection, we are indebted to the Chinese. Our indebtedness to the Celestial Empire is heavy. Art owes its gratitude in many ways. Science finds some of its most valued attainments having their inception with the Chinese. Shut in behind the great walls of their cities, their people are, and always have been workers, in their own way, self-sealed against intrusion, and yet giving out, occasionally, something of importance, while Chinese history, which began thousands of years ago, was making itself and the knowledge of this vast empire, second in its area only to Russia, was hidden in uncertainty, if not in mystery. A peculiar people, having an individual existence that has made itself felt everywhere, the Chinese arc the god-parents to ideas and inventions which others have eagerly caught and improved upon. About 2,000 B. C., from the cocoon of the silk worm the wife of the Chinese Emperor is said to have unwound the silk, found its usefulness, and imparted the discovery to the imperial household. That unwinding of the thread from that cocoon was more to the civilized world than ever that Chinese Empress dreamed of! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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