How was silk made in ancient China? Why did the Chinese keep silk-making methods a secret?

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Muhammad Usman · Answer 1 · 2022-05-10T17:34:06+0000

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Silk became a prized export for the Chinese. Nobles and kings of foreign lands desired silk and would pay high prices for the cloth. The emperors of China wanted to keep the process for making silk a secret. Anyone caught telling the secret or taking silkworms out of China was put to death.

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