Rajshahi Silk Isticatha

When Rajshahi's silk name was heard, it was a beautiful sarees in the eyes. Rajshahi silk sarees made of fine silk yarn found from mulberry trees were popular in foreign countries. The main element of silk cloth surrounds silk, the region has a long and bright past.
Silk cultivation started in Bengal since the colonial period. In 1905, the development of the silk industry was established with two seed reserves. In 1914, the British Government introduced a separate division to supervise the art of silk. During the partition of India in 1947, the silkworm region of Bengal went to parts of India. A few areas fall in Bengal. Of these, about the silk industry of Bholahat of Chapainawabganj, almost indifferent to the Pakistani government is closed. At that time, some entrepreneurs in the private sector came to face the loss of the silk industry and they had to face losses. Later, 10 silk seedbunders were set up in different areas of Rangpur, Dinajpur, Chapainawabganj, Gazipur and Chittagong under East Pakistan Small and Cottage Industries Company. One of the Rajshahi Silk Factories.


After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the silk industry began to see new faces of light. In order to enrich the silk industry in 1974, silk research and training center was established in Rajshahi. After the establishment of the Bangladesh Sericulture Board in 1977, the Rajshahi Silk Factory was handed over to the Board. The factory has 100 reeling machines, 23 power-driven and 10 units The program was started by installing handwoven looms. From 1974 to 1980, 100 reeling machines were upgraded to 200 and 23 power-operated weaving to 43.
Towards the end of the '80s, there were cultivation of mulberry in three thousand hectares of the country. At that time the employment of 50 thousand people of the country was created by the silk sector. Establishment of Bangladesh Sericulture Board in 1978, establishment of head office in Rajshahi, linking sericulture research and training institute with silk board and all facilities including silk industry infrastructure and constructions are under sericulture the industry gets the speed to move. In the beginning, silk industry activities were limited in eight districts, but in the nineties the activities of silk board were expanded in 40 districts.


Originally this time it is said to be the golden age of silk production in the region. In the Rajshahi region of Bangladesh known as Rashmashritya, a new journey started with the hands of Mohammad Sadar Al, after the independence of silk industry.
The Bangladesh Sericulture Board, the Silk Research and Training Institute and the Silk Foundation were reconstituted by the 2013 Bangladesh Silk Development Board. The Bangladesh Silk Development Board has been working to keep this industry alive.

However, Rajshahi's traditional silk is being lost due to lack of weather and government patronage for silk farming. The cotton yarn is importing yarn from abroad because it is not available according to demand. There are few factories in Rajshahi BSCIC industrial area known as the country's silk city. Various adversitie The country's fashion houses are working to save the silk industry. In order to make the participants interested in this industry, they are organizing different types of fashion at home and abroad.

About the invention of silk

Interesting story about the invention of silk. The Chinese philosopher Confucius composition and the history of Chinese know that the discovery of silk in the hands of Emperor Huang Tai's wife Samrajni Saying Shi. Samrajni Ling Shi was drinking tea sitting under a mulberry tree in the garden. Suddenly a cocoon (silk gut) Fall into tea. When he went out of the cocoon, he was surprised to notice that the cocoon began to open and the material was coming out of it.

 He began to find this mystery. He discovered that there are numerous silk insects planted on the mulberry tree. Silk thread found silk from silk worn cocoon. Soon the queen started cultivating silk. For this reason, the goddess of Silk is also called her. After discovering the silk, the Chinese understood its value.Thinking about the possibilities, China keeps secret of silk for nearly three thousand years. While China was trading in 30 countries, sericulture production was absolutely prohibited. After the Silk Road was opened, silk went beyond China's wall to Asia and became silk.


Silk Road became the name of the path that was taken from China to Silk. With the famous Silk Road in history, Western countries were taken to Silk. In exchange, gold, silver, horses, camels, etc. were brought from those countries. At that time silk was more valuable than gold. The length of this silk road, ranging from west China to the Mediterranean, was about 4,000 miles.

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