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← HistoryWhich unintended material property limited Byzantine silk brocade loom output?
A)Warp thread tensile force
B)Silk fiber moisture content✓
C)Natural dye color fading
D)Metal thread alloy corrosion
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Excessive silk fiber moisture content during the weaving process increased thread stickiness, causing warp thread breaks because of increased surface cohesion; therefore loom efficiency declined rather than the warp threads benefiting because moisture reduces tensile force, and neither dyes nor metal alloys determined machine performance.
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