The lifecycle of a silkworm: From egg to moth (Photo Credit : ChilliPix/Shutterstock) Now, some of you might have assumed that we must be using cocoons to get silk once the adult moth leaves the cocoon shell. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. If we wait that long, the silk would ...
Commercial silk does not suit vegetarians, vegans, and anyone against cruelty to animals. Deidaa eco fabric, wild silk, or tussar silk is made by collecting the cocoons after the silkworm has emerged out of the pupa. Why is tussar silk expensive? Produced mainly in India, Tussar ishighly va...
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While silk weighting requires some chemical witchcraft, there is a good technique of making bass strings that would use a rather simple machine. Mine is made of two old kitchen mixers on a frame and a sewing machine pedal switch. They are arranged against one another, to turn the string cor...
The bombyx mori (the mulberry silkworm) produces the bulk of commercial silk. If left to its own devices, a silkworm will make a small hole in its cocoon when it’s ready to emerge as a moth. However, this breaks the long silk strands that make up the inner cocoon. That’s why silk...
In the 1860s the French silk industry was being threatened by a disease affecting the silkworm. Louis Pasteur and Count Hilaire de Chardonnet were studying this problem with the hope of saving this vital industry. During this crisis, Chardonnet became interested in finding a way to produce ...
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Sleep on a100% silk pillowcase– not only will this help you prevent bed head – it will help you get less wrinkles on your face. Have you tried searching for the hair care products you use on EWG’scosmetic database? I did and was saddened to learn so many popular hair care brands...
Silk workers twist the ends of silk fibers together to produce continuous strings, which they then twist into yarn. Once silk workers have harvested silkworm cocoons and rendered them into yarn, textile manufacturers can use this yarn to make silk charmeuse. Charmeuse is a type of satin weave...
How Is Silk Fabric Made? While the silk industry has expanded greatly during the last century, theprocesses used to make this fabricare still largely the same as they were in the ancient world. Once silkworm breeders have harvested silkworm cocoons, they usually expose them to high heat to pr...