And the seeds and/or rootstock for all of those things would also be valuable, but I doubt you'd be able to establish most of them on most worlds, at least not without a lot of difficulty. And the rare materials and the skilled labor feed on one another-- if you've managed to establish mulberry groves and the silkworm in commercially viable quantities on your planet, then that's where the spinning, dying, and weaving industries will develop, so even if someone else does manage to start some silk groves, their finished product won't look as nice as yours for some time-- and with that head start, you can branch into all kinds of fiddly, skilled, expensive, and proprietary directions.
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Date: 2007-06-24 07:36 pm (UTC)And the seeds and/or rootstock for all of those things would also be valuable, but I doubt you'd be able to establish most of them on most worlds, at least not without a lot of difficulty. And the rare materials and the skilled labor feed on one another-- if you've managed to establish mulberry groves and the silkworm in commercially viable quantities on your planet, then that's where the spinning, dying, and weaving industries will develop, so even if someone else does manage to start some silk groves, their finished product won't look as nice as yours for some time-- and with that head start, you can branch into all kinds of fiddly, skilled, expensive, and proprietary directions.