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 1  2,1 |    the transverse bar hung a silk cloth, embroidered in gold
 2  3,9 | article of trade was Chinese silk, the production of which
 3  3,9 |     prices and the prices of silk stuffs greatly in demand
 4  3,9 |     figures. Besides Chinese silk, China and India exported
 5  3,9 |     Axum, urging them to buy silk in India and then resell
 6  3,9 |    India and the monopoly of silk buying still remained in
 7  3,9 |      problem of the Empire’s silk trade. Some person or persons[
 8  3,9 |   many factories for weaving silk stuffs were quickly established.
 9  3,9 |      most important of these silk factories were situated
10  3,9 |     Constantinople.[108] The silk industry became a state
11  3,9 |     of the empire. Byzantine silk stuffs were carried to all
12  3,11| government to mediate in the silk trade with China, avoiding
13  6,7 |   money-changers, traders in silk goods and dresses, dealers
14  6,7 |      dresses, dealers in raw silk, sellers of perfumes, wax,
15  6,8 |    government good salaries, silk garments, living provisions,
16  7,1 |   that time famous for their silk factories and silk stuffs.
17  7,1 |     their silk factories and silk stuffs. Not satisfied with
18  7,1 |   large quantity of precious silk stuffs “the Normans, among
19  7,1 |      Sicily the most skilful silk weavers, both men and women.”
20  7,1 |     were the creators of the silk production and silk industry
21  7,1 |      the silk production and silk industry in Sicily; in reality
22  7,1 |    reality the production of silk and the development of the
23  7,4 |      filled with garments of silk, purple, and gold. Like
24  7,4 |    go clothed in garments of silk with gold embroidery, and
25  9,8 |     country in gold, silver, silk, honey, corn, raisins, and