Silk

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   Did you know that one silk thread is eight times thinner than a human hair, but at the same time it is much stronger? To create one silk dress, you need about two thousand caterpillars, which need to eat the leaves of almost two mulberry trees.
   Since the Great Silk Road, for several millennia, Uzbek silk products have been highly valued. For example, Margilan silk was literally worth its weight in gold and regularly became a means of payment. Made by ancient technologies, silk threads give rise to the indescribable beauty of high-quality fabrics known throughout the world.
   The appearance of the Uzbek silk goes back to the second millennium BC, during the most famous trade route connecting East and West. The legend tells how one of the rulers of the Ferghana Valley became interested in silk products from China. Then he certainly wanted to produce silk in his homeland, and he ordered his subordinates to reveal the secrets of the technology of making Chinese silk.
So, according to legend, silk production began in the Ferghana Valley. And for more than four thousand years, silk products have been made in Uzbekistan: fabrics, carpets, clothes, hats, home decoration, national souvenirs and much more.