With 4,500 years history in China, Silk can be expertly produced to be different types, as well as be dyed and weaved into the fabric. Suzhou is famous for its silk production. In the Suzhou Silk Factory you can view silk production from worm to finished products before exiting through its huge silk store. It is quite astonishing to learn that one cocoon can produce about 2 km of silk strand, and that several of these strands are twined together to make a single thread. The process is so slow and painstaking; it comes as no surprise that genuine hand-made silk articles are so expensive.

You can go to Suzhou First Silk Factory, a famous national industrial tourism demonstration site to know more about silk culture in China.