The legend of silk

Silk, as a weavable fiber was discovered by the Empress Hsi Ling, who was the wife of Emperor Huang Ti (also called Yellow Emperor). Now all the world know the silk by the accident, what happened 3.000 years ago..

One day the empress was drinking her tea under a mulberry tree, when a cocoon fell into her cup of tea and began unreval. The empress became so enamored with the shimmering threads, she discovered their source, the Bombyx mori silkworm found in the white mulberry. The empress soon devaloped sericulture, the cultivation of silkworms and invented the reel and loom. And the history of silk began.