Silk Industry in Florence, Italy

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12 Treasures. New York Times, Oct 19, 2014 (in “Travel section” of Sunday).
www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/travel/12-treasures-of-europe.html

My comment: Read just one treasure: “Florence: Silk.”
(a) “That tradition endures at Antico Setificio Fiorentino, where silks are woven by hand on antique looms using Renaissance patterns.”
(i) Heritage.  Antico Setificio Fiorentino, undated
anticosetificiofiorentino.com/heritage/
(“In Florence, the art of silk weaving found its natural home and flourished in the Fourteenth century * * * Leonardo Da Vinci's Warping Machine [heading:] In the heart of Florence, Antico Setificio Fiorentino is an ancient silk mill that manufactures its treasures using original looms from the 18th century. The silk mill was founded in 1786 by noble Florentine families”)
(ii)
(A) warp
(vt): "to arrange (yarns) so as to form a warp"
(n): “a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warp
(B) warp and woof
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_and_woof
(woof (sometimes weft); Warp is the lengthwise or longitudinal thread in a roll, while weft is the transverse thread)
(iii) Italian English dictionary
* antico (adjective masculine; from Latin [adjective masculine] antīquus): “ancient”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antico
* setificio (noun masculine; from [Italian noun feminine] seta [silk]+‎ -ificio factory): "silk factory, silk mill"en.wiktionary.org/wiki/setificio
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antico
* tribuna (noun feminine) “gallery”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tribuna
* degli (contraction): “(contraction of the preposition di and the article gli) of/from the”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/degli
* uffizio (noun masculine; plural: uffizi): "office"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uffizio

(b) “the factory’s silks also adorn rooms in the Vatican, the Palazzo Vecchio and the Tribuna degli Uffizi in Florence, and even in the Kremlin in Moscow”
(i) Palazzo Vecchio
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Vecchio
("Old Palace;" is the town hall of Florence)
(ii) For Tribuna degli Uffizi, see (a)(ii) above, and Tribuna of the Uffizi
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribuna_of_the_Uffizi

(c) “In the adjoining showroom, walls are lined with bolts of silk, from plush velvets and intricate damasks to diaphanous taffetas, 110 to 1,360 euros (about $135 to $1,670) per meter.”
(i) damask (n)
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/150470/damask

Go to images.google.com to see what it looks like.
(ii) diaphanous (adj; read etymology): “(usually of fabrics such as silk) fine and translucent”
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/diaphanous
(iii) taffeta
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffeta