The Silk Road: Boosting the Textile Industry in Tang Dynasty

Abstract

 At the height of the Tang Dynasty, trading on the Silk Road reached its peak, which brought opportunities for the development of the textile industry. The Silk Road broadened the domestic and foreign textiles market, influenced Han people’s aesthetic and consumption concepts, and promoted textile trading. The Silk Road expanded the categories of textile products and promoted trading and innovation. It facilitated the exchange of textile technology and formed a virtuous cycle of “export-development overseas-import”. The development of the textile industry relied on both traditional technology and foreign technology, which was reflected in the achievements in printing, dyeing, and brocade, and laid a superb technical foundation for the development of the textile industry later.