Silk Manufacture
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Bursa and Cumalikizik | Bursa became a centre of silk manufacture because of its location at the western end of the Silk road. The Koza Khan ( = Cocoon Khan) was where cocoons were traded, See | |
| Causses and Cévennes | mulberry cultivation | |
| Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens | In the Ottoman Period the Hevsel Gardens were covered entirely in Mulberry trees" (Diyarbakir Province is still a producer of silk) | |
| La Lonja de la Seda | Silk trade | |
| Lyon | Lyonais silk workshops, the canuts in Croix-Rousse | |
| Mystras | The silk industry (silk worm culture) was the manufacturing and trading city's only resource. (AB ev) | |
| Royal Palace at Caserta | San Leucio Silk Factory of 1778 | |
| Sheki | Silkworm breeding was a major industry | |
| Shirakawa-go and Gokayama | The inhabitants "subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms" (AB ev) | |
| Tomioka Silk Mill | ||
| Yazd | majority of the inhabitants were engaged in silk and cotton production |
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