Sericulture

One of the first things of which fallen man took cognizance in the Garden of Eden was the fact that he needed clothing, and so he pro­vided himself with an apron of fig leaves. Later he used animal skins and hair. Not until after the de­luge did it occur to him to use the delicate threads of the silk-worm. According to Chinese historians silk was first used as a fiber dur­ing the reign of Huang-Ti some 2000 years before the birth of Christ. In fact, the term silk was derived from the emperor’s...