We went to a silk farm. The way they harvest silk is they start out as little worms and they grow till they are big enough to go into a cocoon and before they hatch they boil the cocoons and spin it to a thread then they dye it and it is ready to make a scarf or a blanket.
The life cycle of the silk worm
the worms are two weeks here
She is unravelling the silk off the worms cacoons by putting them in boiling water and the silk comes off in tiny strands and it comes onto the spinning reel
weaving the silk into scarves and blankets
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