The Silk Industry

Sarah Bush studied history as a mature student and has researched the silk industry for the Macclesfield Silk Heritage. She continues to work on the technological aspects of silk. She lives in Manchester, which gives her the opportunity to study the industrial archaeology of the textile industry.Silk was first developed in ancient China as early as 2600 BC, and over the centuries that followed it gradually spread first to South East Asia and then to the Middle East, North Africa and Eu