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The Miracle of Silk: Silk. The Word Itself Is Beautiful. The Story of Silk Starts in

Silk originated in China over 4,000 years ago when a silkworm's cocoon fell into a woman's teacup. The Chinese learned to use the cocoons to make a soft, beautiful cloth. For many years, China kept the silk production process a secret. Silk slowly spread along trade routes, reaching as far as Rome by 1 AD. Centuries later, silkworms were brought to other parts of Asia and Europe. Today silk is still used worldwide to create clothing and other items, despite appearing delicate. Silk is actually very strong and has properties that make it suitable for applications like bicycle tires and medical procedures. The story of silk demonstrates how something seemingly insignificant, like a silkworm, can

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The Miracle of Silk: Silk. The Word Itself Is Beautiful. The Story of Silk Starts in

Silk originated in China over 4,000 years ago when a silkworm's cocoon fell into a woman's teacup. The Chinese learned to use the cocoons to make a soft, beautiful cloth. For many years, China kept the silk production process a secret. Silk slowly spread along trade routes, reaching as far as Rome by 1 AD. Centuries later, silkworms were brought to other parts of Asia and Europe. Today silk is still used worldwide to create clothing and other items, despite appearing delicate. Silk is actually very strong and has properties that make it suitable for applications like bicycle tires and medical procedures. The story of silk demonstrates how something seemingly insignificant, like a silkworm, can

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Silk. The word itself is beautiful. The story of silk starts in China over 4,000 years ago. One legend says a silkworms cocoon fell into a womans teacup. It then opened into a single, unbroken thread. This was an important discovery. The Chinese learned they could use the cocoons to make cloth that was both beautiful to look at and soft to touch. Making silk was a protected secret in China for many years. In other countries, silk was very rare and valuable. Often it was worth more than gold. Legend tells us that the secret finally got out when a princess left China to go to India. In her hair, she secretly carried many silkworms. By the year 1 A.d., silk was sold as far west as Rome, and all along the Silk Road, which connected China with places in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Eventually, around the year 300, silk also traveled from China to Japan. Centuries later, in 1522, the Spanish brought silkworms to Mexico. Nowadays people around the world still make many beautiful things from silk. But silk isnt only beautiful. It looks delicate,2 but its actually very strong. For example, it has been used to make bicycle tires. And some doctors even use silk threads in hospital operations.3 Silk is also lightweight and warm.This makes it great for clothes like winter jackets, pants, and boots. All of this from a little insect the silkworm. That is the miracle of silk.
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 miracle is something that is very surprising or fortunate. A If something is delicate, it is easy to break and needs to be handled carefully.  An operation, is when a surgeon cuts open a patients body to remove, replace,  or repair a diseased or damaged part.

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