Sichuan silk industry experienced a booming period in the Tang and Song dynasties with its capital Chengdu as one of the nation-wide silk-weaving centers.
The Byzantines were as secretive as the Chinese, however, and for many centuries the weaving and trading of silk fabric was a strict imperial monopoly.
然而，拜占庭人和中国人一样神秘，在许多世纪里，丝绸织物的编织和贸易是严格的帝国垄断。
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From the 1880s to the 1930s, the textile industry in Japan employed over half of all workers, most of them in the three major branches of silk reeling, cotton spinning, and weaving.