Good ideas and innovation travel easily—and far. Historically, these ideas spread along trade routes. This essay looks at the great Eurasian Silk Roads as a transmitter of people, goods, ideas, ...

This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads. The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with ...

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Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam.

Hold the phone: if you’re new to the concept of sleeping in a silk hair wrap it’s time to get acquainted with Silke. Where most hair wraps seem aesthetically unpleasing, this one is wholly ...

The best silk pillowcases are billed as helping to improve your skin and hair, while also making for a luxurious addition to your bedding. Silk is less absorbent than cotton – and won’t wick ...

Japan-based biochemist Ali Malay has long questioned traditional theories about how spiders make their silk. “The prevailing hypotheses seemed like magic, because, according to it, you suddenly ...

In the five years that Tiffany Posh has been doing hair for Black women in metro Washington, D.C., she's never had so many of ...

Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.

A journey from Xi'an, the birthplace of the Silk Road in China, to Lanzhou in the country's north-west, discovering the legacy of goods like tea and silk, the impact of imported ideas like ...