The History
Three thousand years of silk. You're inheriting all of it.
No textile in human history carries more weight than silk. It funded empires, sparked wars, opened trade routes that reshaped the ancient world, and remained, for most of its existence, reserved exclusively for royalty. Mulberry silk — the purest, finest grade — sits at the center of that story.
c. 2700 BCE
Legend of the Yellow Empress
Chinese legend credits Empress Leizu with discovering silk after a cocoon unraveled into a single, shimmering thread in her tea. Whether myth or memory, sericulture — the cultivation of silkworms — began in ancient China.
c. 1200 BCE
A State Secret
For over a thousand years, China guarded the secret of silk production as a matter of national security. Smuggling silkworm eggs out of the empire was punishable by death.
130 BCE
The Silk Road Opens
Trade routes spanning over 6,400 kilometers connected China to the Mediterranean, carrying silk westward and reshaping global commerce, culture, and diplomacy for fifteen centuries.
Han to Tang Dynasties
The Fabric of Emperors
Silk became the exclusive material of Chinese royalty and high officials — its color and weave dictated by rank. To wear silk was to display sanctioned, untouchable status.
6th Century CE
Byzantium Breaks the Monopoly
According to legend, Byzantine monks smuggled silkworm eggs to Constantinople hidden in hollow canes, ending China's millennium-long monopoly and birthing the European silk trade.
Renaissance Europe
Royal Courts Adopt the Standard
From the Italian city-states to the French and English courts, silk became shorthand for nobility — woven into coronation robes, wedding gowns, and the fabric of state power itself.
Today
Mulberry Silk, The Gold Standard
Of every silk produced globally, Mulberry silk — from silkworms fed exclusively on mulberry leaves — remains the benchmark for quality, prized in the world's finest bedding, garments, and now, our hood lining.
The Legacy Continues