According to George Birdwood India was perhaps the first of all countries that perfected weaving and the art of its gold brocades and filmy Muslims. The Roman Senate was probably the first to pass a law preventing the wearing of the Indian silk garments by men. The yarn is given twists of a specified number f turns to the inch and are given either 5 or 2 twists. At first continuous thread or a strand of twisted fibres is made and several of these strands are ...
