Chinese Silk!!

By Justin Greenberg, Rachel Eisenhart and Anastasia Pereira

Cut, weave, stich, that’s how you make silk. Okay, that’s not technically how you make silk but that’s part of how to make silk. Listen up, silk is very important epically in china because, in ancient china it was really hard to make silk. The silk road was all so important I’m mean come on with out the silk road we wouldn’t have silk, Chinese food, clay and other Chinese invention.

Silk

WHY SILK IS IMPORTANT Silk is important especially in china. Silk is so

important it has so many colors like (this might take a while) Red, peach, gold, silver, dark blue, dark green, dark red, light blue, light green, pink, white, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, violet, black, brown, gray. Silk is also important because, only rich people were aloud to wear silk I mean that’s pretty special that only the rich wears it but the poor wears scratch up cotton and itchy wool I think it was really good in china to be rich I mean come on you can afford like anything but instead of wearing silk poor people wear scratch up cotton and itchy wool.

WHY SILK IS IMPORTANT TO CHINA Silk is very important to china because,

china invented silk so they wanted to keep and how silk was made a secret that’s why silk is important. The emperor wore silk I bet you know emperors in china are important like are president. Just one more thing Traders all over the world go to china just to get silk and silk is a very hard invention to make but once you learn how to make silk you can make beautiful inventions.

THE MONGOLIANS The Mongolians were a group of

men who were great horse riders but they wanted silk so bad that they started a war against china they hurt the great wall that’s surrounded china. The leader of the Mongolians was Gangus Khan A REALLY BAD GUY!!!!!!!!!!!

How Silk is MadeSilk was very difficult to make

in ancient china. Here are the steps on how to do it.

Step1: silkworms spin a cocoon from a jellylike substance

How Silk is Made Step2: After a few days, the cocoons

are dipped in hot water to loosen the fiber & kill the worm inside. Once one cocoon is unwound it can be 3300ft. (1000m.) long!

Step3: 5 to 8 fibers are twisted together to form one thread. Then the threads are dyed many different colors. The thread was then hung on bamboo racks to dry.

How Silk is Made Step4: Once the thread is dry, workers

weave the thread to form a cloth.Step5: once the cloth is ready, it is sewn to form scarves, tops, and robes.

The Silk Road The Silk Road

The Silk Road was a route of trade and a route of transportation the Chinese traded for European goods. Ghengis Khan was the leader of the Mongolians. Ghengis Khan always wanted to be the leader of the Chinese and he also wanted to beautiful silk. So the Silk Road was were they traded silk. When people from different countries saw silk would pay a lot money to get silk.

Mongolians

The Mongolians where enemies of the Chinese. Gangues Khan was the leader of the Mongols. He attacked the Silk Road and the Great Wall of China. Just for the silk.