0147 - Noted Tussah Silk Centre Expands Production. Tantung city on the nor...Back

Noted Tussah Silk Centre Expands Production. Tantung city on the north bank of the Yalu River in Liaoning Province is the country's noted tussah silk producer. Lustrous and cream-coloured, tussah silk is strong and elastic. In 1973, the city's silk output was more than 120 times that in 1949. Its variety of oak silk piece good runs to more than 500 in 2,000 different patterns and hues. After liberation, sight silk mills have been expanded and built. Cocoon beaching, filature reeling, weaving and printing and dyeing were mechanized to replace hand operations in reeling and weaving. Silk reeling at the Fengcheng Silk Mill in Tantung city, Liaoning Province.