silk production
Weaving worm secretions
Silk production is the process of making silk fabric, from raising silkworms to weaving finished cloth.
The term covers the entire sequence: cultivating mulberry trees for feed, tending silkworm larvae, harvesting cocoons, unreeling filaments, spinning thread, and weaving or knitting the final textile.
Sericulture refers specifically to the agricultural phase of raising silkworms.
- silkwormMoth larva yielding fiber
- spinneretsSilk-extruding spider organs
- degummingRemoving natural adhesive substances
- cocoonSilk wrapping for transformation
- kimonoWraparound Japanese garment
sari · bivoltine · brocade · reeling · fine thread · Suzhou · spinning wheel · throwing · mulberry · temperature control · moth · ancient China · lustrous · caterpillar · unwinding · fabric · delicate · filament
- Asian inventionsgunpowder, paper money, compass, movable type, printing
- Asian PrehistoryPaleolithic, Bronze Age, Chalcolithic, hunter-gatherers, stone tools
- textilescotton, wool, fabric, thread, yarn
- ancient textilestextile, weaving, loom, looms, spinning
- Byzantine legacyConstantinople, Hagia Sophia, Byzantine art, Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox Church
- Central AsiaKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan