About The Book of Silk
The Book of Silk- Paperback conveying the rich history of silk through five millennia, reproducing hundreds of fabrics, furnishings and garments, from ancient China, where the secret of reeling silkworm cocoons was first discovered, by the legendary Silk Routes to Byzantium and the Islamic world, to Ottoman Turkey and India, to the Renaissance, and the baroque and rococo silks of western Christendom, and ends with the silk fashion of the present. Published by Thames and Hudson. Author: Philippa Scott.
