How do we get silk smooth as butter comfortable like cotton yet strong as steel. Silk production also occurs in hymenoptera bees wasps and ants silverfish mayflies thrips leafhoppers beetles lacewings fleas flies and midges.

How Is Silk Made

Designboom will soon sell hand made silk scarves made from this village.

How we get silk. It takes two to three thousand cocoons to get a pound of silk. Silk is mainly produced by the larvae of insects undergoing complete metamorphosis but some insects such as webspinners and raspy crickets produce silk throughout their lives. The operator slowly and carefully turns the reel unravelling the cocoon thread.

To harvest silk threads from 30 50 cocoons are clubbed together into a single thicker thread by passing them through a tiny hole in the bamboo stick onto a hand operated reel. How to make silk in 6 steps. This is a dream fabric for many and yes you ve probably alr.

Raising silkworms harvesting cocoons.