How Is Silk Made?

Silkworm is a caterpillar that eats leaves, and would have been harmful to the crops and eradicated had people not discovered that it produces delicate silk. Raising silkworms Silkworms prefer mild weather, so it is best to breed them in spring and autumn. Their life-cycle is about 23-25 days, divided into 5 phases, through 4 molts. Larvae eat continuously, and their food is white mulberry. White mulberries are cultivated on fertile alluvial fields and cut twice a year in order for them to grow strong and fast, to supply sufficient leaves for sericulture. Leaves are picked either young or later […]

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