Once upon a time in the West, silk stockings wrapped up ladies legs gently.
Silk is woven of raw silk.
Raw silk, reeled off cocoons of silkworms, tied up in bundles, brought to Yokohama, and transported from there to find their ways to foreign ports at last. A city, at the eastern end of the Silk Road, was once brought dreamy prosperity by the silk industry. The pictures in this site are personal possessions. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission, in any media, forbidden.