Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company · leaf 41
aged and developed until it became ofnational importance. About the same time, tradition has it, a Chineseprincess carried the eggs of the insect, and the seed of the mulberrytree, on the leaves of which it feeds, to Khotan in her head dress andinstituted the culture of silk there. From there…