'Silk' Tagged Posts

Read Colossians 3:12-17 Legend has it that silk was discovered by Chinese Empress Leizu, or Xi Ling-shi, wife of Emperor Huang Ti, about 3000 BC. In one story, she is sitting down with a cup of tea when a cocoon falls into her cup and begins to unravel. In another account, she was investigating the cause of some damage to mulberry bushes, and found the silkworms eating the leaves. She tried spinning the threads, invented a loom, and eventually produced…