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Tamerlane's Captive Silk Weavers: The Samarkand Textile Revolution
When Tamerlane conquered Damascus, Aleppo, and Tabriz, he didn't just take gold and manuscripts. He took their best silk weavers, brocade makers, and embroiderers and marched them east to Samarkand. In this episode of Tamerlane, Lucas and Luna explore how these captive artisans transformed Samarkand into a textile powerhouse rivaling China and Byzantium. They trace the journey of a single bolt of Timurid silk from the kar-khanas of Samarkand across the Silk Road to Venice, where it turned heads in the Palazzo Ducale. They also examine the shadow side of this forced migration: the…
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