Place of origin
China
China gave the world silk and guarded the secret for thousands of years, building the trade network that history named the Silk Road. Beyond silk itself, China is the source of the figured damasks and brocades woven on the draw loom, of the plant fibers hemp and ramie, and of the wild and cultivated silks named for its provinces and ports, like shantung and nankeen.
Satin
No. 019weave · weaves
Brocade
No. 062fabric · motifs
Shantung
No. 079fabric · plain
Nankeen
No. 080fabric · plain
Pongee
No. 094fabric · plain
Silk
No. 128fabric · fibers
Hemp
No. 129fabric · fibers
Ramie
No. 130fabric · fibers