 ... himself nor would allow his wife to possess a single silken garment, we learn that silk was worth its weight in gold. Notwithstanding its price and the restraints otherwise put on the use of silk the trade grew. Under Justinian a monopoly of the trade...  Global Silk Industry: A Complete Source Book - Page 23by Rajat K. Datta, Mahesh Nanavaty - 2005 - 413 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 920 pages
...trade grev- . Under Justinian a monopoly of the trade and manufacture was reserved to the emperor, and looms, worked by women, were set up within the imperial palace at Constantinople. Justinian also endeavoured, through the Christian prince of Abyssinia, to divert... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 948 pages
...the trade grev-. Under Justinian a monopoly of the trade and manufacture was reserved to the emperor, and looms, worked by women, were set up within the imperial palace at Constantinople. Justinian also endeavoured, through the Christian prince of Abyssinia, to divert... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 946 pages
...the trade grew. Under Justinian a monopoly of the trade and manufacture was reserved to the emperor, and looms, worked by women, were set up within the imperial palace at Constantinople. Justinian also_ endeavored, through the Christian prince of Abyssinia, to divert... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1118 pages
...the trade grew. Under Justinian a monopoly of the trade and manufacture was reserved to the emperor, and looms, worked by women, were set up within the imperial palace at Constantinople. Justinian also endeavoured, through the Christian prince of Abyssinia, to divert... | |
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