Enables
- Buildings:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 1000
- +20 bales of raw silk
- +350 to wealth generated by trade in this province
Description
Heaven's grace created on a mortal loom.
Silk has always been a wondrous commodity, no matter where the cloth was traded. It can bring in a great deal of wealth to the lord who invests wisely in the enterprise, such as in this province. From the most ancient of times silk was a symbol of power, luxury and mystery. It was so beautiful, magical and costly that only the very powerful and very wealthy could afford to wear it. Although sumptuary laws forbidding common people from wearing rich clothes had fallen out of usage in Victorian Europe, the equivalent rules and customs were still obeyed in Japan when the American squadron arrived in 1853.