<P> Untailored clothes, however had no particular names . Pandong, a lady's cloak, simply meant any natural covering, like the growth on banana trunk's or a natal caul . In Panay, the word kurong, meaning curly hair, was applied to any short skirt or blouse; and some better ones made of imported chintz or calico were simply called by the name of the cloth itself, tabas . So, too, the wraparound skirt the Tagalogs called tapis was hardly considered a skirt at all: Visayans just called it habul (woven stuff) or halong (abaca) or even hulun (sash). </P> <P> The usual male headdress was the pudong, a turban, though in Panay both men and women also wore a head cloth or bandana called saplung . Commoners wore pudong of rough abaca cloth wrapped around only a few turns so that it was more of a headband than a turban and was therefore called pudong - pudong--as the crowns and diadems on Christian images were later called . A red pudong was called magalong, and was the insignia of braves who had killed an enemy . The most prestigious kind of pudong, limited to the most valiant, was, like their G - strings, made of pinayusan, a gauze - thin abaca of fibers selected for their whiteness, tie - dyed a deep scarlet in patterns as fine as embroidery, and burnished to a silky sheen . Such pudong were lengthened with each additional feat of valor: real heroes therefore let one end hang loose with affected carelessness . Women generally wore a kerchief, called tubatub if it was pulled tight over the whole head; but they also had a broad - brimmed hat called sayap or tarindak, woven of sago - palm leaves . Some were evidently signs of rank: when Humabon's queen went to hear mass during Magellan's visit, she was preceded by three girls carrying one of her hats . A headdress from Cebu with a deep crown, used by both sexes for travel on foot or by boat, was called sarok, which actually meant to go for water . </P> <P> The exchange of luxury textiles was predominant on the Silk Road, a series of ancient trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting East and West by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time . The trade route was initiated around 114 BC by the Han Dynasty, although earlier trade across the continents had already existed . Geographically, the Silk Road or Silk Route is an interconnected series of ancient trade routes between Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in China, with Asia Minor and the Mediterranean extending over 8,000 km (5,000 mi) on land and sea . Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the great civilizations of China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and Rome, and helped to lay the foundations for the modern world . </P> <P> Fabric in Ancient Greece was woven on a warp - weighted loom . The first extant image of weaving in western art is from a terracotta lekythos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY . The vase, c. 550 - 530 B.C.E., depicts two women weaving at an upright loom . The warp threads, which run vertically to a bar at the top, are tied together with weights at the bottom, which hold them taut . The woman on the right runs the shuttle containing the weaving thread across the middle of the warp . The woman on the left uses a beater to consolidate the already - woven threads . </P>

Which of the following are true about textile manufacturing in china