Requires
- Buildings:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 3800
- +650 to wealth from commerce in this province
- +30 bales of raw silk
Description
Heaven's grace created on a mortal loom.
Silk has always been a wondrous commodity, no matter where the cloth was traded. The silk weavers in this province can bring in a great deal of wealth to the lord who invests wisely in their enterprise. From the most ancient of times silk was a symbol of power, luxury and mystery. From Asia it travelled all the way along the fabled Silk Road - a series of caravan routes in reality - all the way to Europe. There it was treated as an almost magical material, its sheer cost meaning only the richest and most powerful could possibly wear it. Sumptuary laws governing the clothes of every social class made the punishments for wearing high-status clothes singularly unpleasant. Oddly, wearing silk was also controlled by Japanese versions of sumptuary laws: clothes made the man in every part of the world. And in every part of the world, nothing said wealth, opulence and power like silk.