silk trade
Luxurious textile exchange
The silk trade refers to the commerce in silk fabric and raw silk, historically one of the most valuable goods in long-distance trade.
The term often evokes the ancient Silk Road connecting China to the Mediterranean, though silk trading continues today.
The silk trade brought wealth to merchant families across Asia and Europe.
By extension, silk trade can describe any luxury goods commerce along those historic routes.
- merchant caravansTraveling groups transporting goods
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- kimonosTraditional Japanese robes
- brocadeRaised-pattern luxury fabric
commerce · artisan guilds · Samarkand · Byzantine Empire · caravan · woven fabric · Marco Polo · ancient China · ceremonial robes · East India Company · Justinian · export tariffs · Persian Empire · mulberry · jade · embroidery · camels · China
- East Asian Culturechopsticks, yin and yang, tea ceremony, origami, qi
- Byzantine legacyConstantinople, Hagia Sophia, Byzantine art, Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox Church
- Tang Chinacourt music, court dance, imperial exam, civil service exams, pagodas
- Company RajBritish East India Company, East India Company, sepoy, sepoys, factory
- SafavidsIsfahan, Shia Islam, Twelver Shia, state religion, Persian carpets
- fashion industryfashion, fashion design, fashion designers, fashion shows, fashion week
silk tradegrain trade
Commerce in harvested cereals
salt trade · slave trade · barter economy · local markets · commodity trade
silk tradeisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
trade embargo · autarky · economic isolation · domestic trade · local commerce