Silk Manufacture
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Bursa and Cumalikizik | Bursa became a centre of silk manufacture because of its location at the western end of the Silk road. The Koza Khan ( = Cocoon Khan) was where cocoons were traded, See | |
| Causses and Cévennes | mulberry cultivation | |
| Derwent Valley Mills | "It began with the construction of the Silk Mill in Derby in 1721 for the brothers John and Thomas Lombe, which housed machinery for throwing silk, based on an Italian design." (OUV) - Derby Silk Mill | |
| Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens | In the Ottoman Period the Hevsel Gardens were covered entirely in Mulberry trees" (Diyarbakir Province is still a producer of silk) | |
| La Lonja de la Seda | Silk trade | |
| Lyon | Lyonais silk workshops, the canuts in Croix-Rousse | |
| Mystras | The silk industry (silk worm culture) was the manufacturing and trading city's only resource. (AB ev) | |
| Royal Palace at Caserta | San Leucio Silk Factory of 1778 | |
| Sheki | Silkworm breeding was a major industry | |
| Shirakawa-go and Gokayama | The inhabitants "subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms" (AB ev) | |
| Tomioka Silk Mill | "Tomioka and its related sites form an outstanding example of an integrated ensemble for the mass production of raw silk." (OUV) | |
| Yazd | majority of the inhabitants were engaged in silk and cotton production |
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