It was already common in China and India when it arrived in France in the th century, at the time when the Papal court moved to Avignon. 교황의 수요를 충족시키기 위해 아비뇽에 비단 직조 공장이 세워졌습니다. When the popes returned to Rome, some silk mills stayed in the Uzs region, then opened in Lyon.