Sualkuchi is known to be the Manchester of the East and it is famous for the Assam Silk. This place is also known as the “Silk Village”. The ‘Muga’, the golden silk of Assam is made here and was made known to the world way back in 1662 by a French traveler Jean Joseph Tavernier. The silk was the royal fabric of the Ahom Kings who ruled Assam for six centuries till 1826.