03-31-2017, 12:31 AM
Thanks Nathan, I like the plural form of silk routes. Will have to find time to look through your link in a couple of hours as the sun is out and I have lawns to mow. One of the items of trade that always fascinated the Chinese was "sea silk" and "water sheep" from the Roman Eastern provinces which a lot of historians thought could only be a mistranslation by the Chinese but was a very fine filament secreted by certain types of molluscs & probably used in the garment workshops of Tyre & Sidon.The Chinese elites had a liking for re-worked textiles from these regions.
Regards
Michael Kerr
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Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"