From Cocoon to Silk - Silkworm processing
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Gotta love the comments from people crying over dead caterpillars. How many moths & butterflies (not to mention other bugs) do you smash up every time you go out for a drive on the highway?
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Who gives a shit about killing the goddamn things. Do you cry when you eat a salad, since you are killing plants?
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This is facinating! I've always wondered about how the silk cocoon was harvested. I never imagined that it was so easy.
What an informative video. Thanks for posting it!
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@killergirlgoodgirl1 The enzymes produced by a moth to tear its way out of cocoon can harm the quality of silk fibers, thats why cocoons are boiled before the live insect gets out.. The dead pupas are eaten sometimes or fed to birds, most of the times thrown away..
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nothing beats how hard it is to make pina garment... or pineaple garment....mostly used as barong tagalog in the philippines
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@bosbcn There is no justice in taking its life even if it was going to die in a few days
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isnt silkworm silk expensive?
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@psynema Your welcome. Please continue committing Veggie-cide.
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@heavym3tal I didn't know salads have a central nervous system, eyes, legs, brain etc. Thanks for informing us genius.
is the worms still alive??
killergirlgoodgirl1 1 year ago
@killergirlgoodgirl1 I think they are in the stage where they turn into a butterfly. I am not sure if those cocoons were alive or not.
bosbcn 1 year ago 3
why did they kill them
mariyam1995mon 1 year ago
@mariyam1995mon To make silk, they were going to die as a butterfly in a few days anyway. Not that that is any justification...
bosbcn 1 year ago 4
I cant believe you can just stretch it out like that in some water and its INSTANTLY a whole woven fabric made of a single long strand of silk
Wh0rse 1 year ago 3
@Wh0rse never thought of it like that. i guess the silk worm must knit the fabric, and the water just allows it to strech
bosbcn 1 year ago