How was Silk Important to Ancient China?

Look at your clothing tag, Chnaces are that your Hollister jeans or Hot Topic shirt are mad of cotten or pollyfiber. But in ancient china people used silk for there clothing.
Silk is verry important to china. Some of the main reasons silk was important to Ancient China was in the cold winter people used silk to make warm coats and shoes, if you were rich enough to afford any of this then you could by coats and shoes for your entire family.Silk alsowas important because china sold silk to people from other parts of the country or world, thus, people who sold silk made a "quick buck ".