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Silk Manufacture in Chiang Mai Thailand

 

Silkworms

Collecting Mulberry leaves- 25 grams of eggs may need up to a ton of leaves

 After hatching, silkworms eat mulberry leaves constantly.
Silkworms make cocoons using a sticky liquid produced by their salivary glands. This liquid hardens on exposure to air and forms a continuous filament. The silkworm constructs the cocoon by weaving the filament into figures of eight held together by sericin (a gummy substance)
The cocoons with the dead silkworms are softened by immersion in very hot water. Immersion releases the end of the filament, which is then combined with the ends of other cocoons to make a continuous thread
Traditional spinning wheels are used for unwinding silk skeins onto bobbins
The silk is woven on traditional wooden looms
Fabric weaving Traditional wooden loom
Silk weaving The finished product. High quality silk fabric

 

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