Sentence examples for silk centre from inspiring English sources

Industry is concentrated in Fergana city, the capital, in Kokand (Quqŏn), and in the silk centre of Marghilon.

Particularly costly silk carpets with figure motifs (such as the silk hunting carpet in Vienna's Austrian Museum of Applied Art) were probably woven in Kāshān, Persia's silk centre.

Toyohashi is a major cotton and silk textile centre, and Seto is noted for its china.

Kumbakonam is an important silk-weaving centre and more than 5,000 families were employed either directly or indirectly in silk weaving.

It has major Grand Trunk Road and rail connections and is an agricultural-trade and silk-weaving centre.

After the late 19th century, it became one of the largest silk manufacturing centres of Japan.

With its starchitecture, media centres, tech start-ups and warehouse hipster vibe, this new quarter gives a fresh face to a city that was the ancient capital of Gaul, flourished as a silk-weaving centre during the Renaissance, became a stronghold of the resistance in the second world war, and a gastronomic superpower in the 20th century under chef Paul Bocuse.

The city is still a major centre of silk weaving.

Fukui city and smaller towns on the plain form a major silk and synthetic textile centre.

Persia became a centre of silk trade between East and West under the Parthians (247 bce–224 ce).

Kanchipuram is a traditional centre of silk weaving and handloom industries for producing Kanchipuram Saris.