The silk manufacture, though altogether employed upon foreign materials, has lately obtained the same advantage.

They later became trainers in silk manufacture in their own prefectures.

Italian silk manufacture developed, so that western churches and elites no longer needed to rely on imports from Byzantium or the Islamic world.

The quarter is heavily marked by silk industry (Lyons was the centre of silk manufacture in Europe).

The other chief sources of the island's wealth lay in its wines and, in later days, in its silk manufacture.

In addition techniques of silk manufacture were imported, enhancing the Kent cloth industry.

Another important invention in connection with silk manufacture was his velvet loom for piled fabrics which made him very rich.

He describes the silk manufacture of the Seres:

The Jews of Amalfi were a small community, engaged in silk manufacture, garment dyeing and trade.

By 1822 labour rates were so above market labour rates, that much of the employment in silk manufacture had moved to the country.