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I was I was I was I was shaving and just pondering about the things in life I do when I'm shaving and it really occurred to me at that moment. Why is muga silk so expensive? Let's find out. This is amazing the serendipity To make muga silk laborers must unwind a muga caterpillar's cocoon into a single long seamless thread Wow, and to make just one sorry about 1,000 cocoons need to be unraveled Sorry made of muga silk can cost up to $6,500 thousands more than other sorry's Dollars, but the caterpillars needed to make the cocoons also called muga seeds might be in danger of disappearing And without them farmers can't produce muga silk at all So why is muga silk so expensive and what's hurting the caterpillars needed to make that's what I want to know Muga can only be made in the Assam region of India It's so central to the culture here, but there's even a traditional song about the golden thread Muga silk is unique because of its naturally lustrous gold color It can last up to 100 years and it's said to offer protection by absorbing 85% of harmful UV rays But these properties also make it more expensive and the labor and expenses required to make muga silk bump the price even further Farmers has to collect the seed cocoons with a very high price from different parts of the Assam This is because of the unavailability of muga seeds, number one And number two is the huge number of manual laborers to be put in for conducting the reeling of muga They pick a male and female moth to mate and tie the female to the coreca, a stick with a hook made of thatch grass or twine This is where the female will lay its eggs Rearers then transfer the coreca to a psalm tree, the host plant from muga worms Here, tiny ash-colored larvae known as chai muga hatch and begin to feed on the leaves But the larvae are vulnerable at this stage, so farmers need to keep a watchful eye to ensure they can form the cocoons needed to make muga silk They shoot clay pellets into the fields to keep potential predators at bay and protect the larvae After one or two months, they can collect and mature caterpillars Here the caterpillars rest and weave their cocoons for three days, until they fully empty the silk glands and enter pupation Not all cocoons are used for silk Some are stored in the sakori para, a bamboo box for keeping cocoons and moths so farmers can continue breeding muga silk The hatched cocoons are used for rougher fabrics, such as winter clothes and blankets But the most expensive muga fabrics come from unhatched cocoons That's because the silk in these cocoons isn't torn and can be unraveled into a continuous thread So the cocoons can be used for rougher fabrics, such as winter clothes and blankets But the most expensive muga fabrics come from unhatched cocoons And can be unraveled into a continuous thread Besides being limited in which cocoons they can use, weavers also need a lot of them For weavers who buy cocoons, this doesn't come cheap The only way to get the right amount is to use the same amount of cocoons That's why we have to make sure that we have the same amount of cocoons But the amount of cocoons we have is 50% To produce one kilogram of muga yarn, Manaka needs 5,000 cocoons Which is enough for about five sari's And that one kilogram could take her a week Because to make the yarn, she needs to reel the golden thread, a process that demands special care Traditionally, the asami's add dried banana peel or patty batch ash to the mixture Which de-gums the cocoon and gives the thread a better sheen And when it comes to muga, the shinier the silk, the more valuable it will be Two people then use a pangoi to carefully reel the long muga silk threads in a continuous motion Reelers gently pull from several cocoons and join the thin strings together to make one thicker thread They must make sure each thread has a consistent thickness, where the yarn won't be as valuable Finally, the reavers load the muga silk yarn onto banded wounds Where asami's women weave it into the desired fabric Some of the most intricate sari's made from regular silk can cost $250 in India But the same design on a muga silk fabric can kick the price up into the thousands Muga silk is the pride of Assam, which accounts for almost all of India's muga silk production But the profits are limited While muga farmers work tirelessly to ensure the moths survive, it's not only up to them The muga moth is continuously threatened by the climate crisis Muga silkworms are reared outdoors An exposure to even the slightest change in temperature and humidity can wreak havoc During high temperatures in 2018, farmers had to delay rearing for 10 to 15 days to avoid silkworm depths Losing this time during peak commercial season when production is ramping up Means producers can end up with less muga silk to sell This is one of the major threats to the muga in the coming decades And second is the pollution And the pollution generated by the tea gardens and petrochemicals Tea gardens use some very destructive chemicals like pesticides, herbicides, etc These chemicals have toxic effects on the muga moth that impact its mortality and ability to reproduce This can threaten the relatively low production of muga silk Compared to other expensive Indian made silks like mulberry silk Only about 239 metric tons of muga silk were produced in India in 2021 Compare that to over 24,000 metric tons of mulberry silk that were produced in the same year According to Jutol, this doesn't meet global demand for muga And it drives the price even higher The limited supply of authentic muga silk has led some producers to fill the gap with fakes To combat the rise of fake muga, in 2007 the Indian government designated a saan muga silk As a protected geographical indication or GI product This means authentic muga silk can only come from a saan But Jutol doesn't believe it's done much to help a saan's muga silk production That's why Jutol and other muga farmers are relying on environmental conservation efforts now and in the future to ensure the survival of this millennia old fabric I like her a lot Dang, it's just like all these things we've seen man The fact that all this, especially this though, is done by hand in an excruciatingly long process I don't even know how someone one day was like, caterpillar cookings Let's make something out of it Obviously I'm an idiot and I don't even know how that would I think about those things all the time where like, especially when we watch these videos It's like, how many trial and error and who even thought to begin the process to create that thing Clearly it's been around for a long, long, long time But yeah, it's no shock that it's the climate change global warming Yeah, because even if you get, let's say you got laws passed that made the tea manufacturers comply so that they don't pollute the area So let's say you just kept it pristine right now that doesn't change the fact that the planet's warming And has been for every year for the past many, many years And the only other thing would be so extraordinarily expensive to do which would be to create like greenhouse farms The amount of money that would have to be invested into that to create such an atmosphere for them is I'm sure cost-primitive to say the least Yeah, absolutely, they would need outside funding for something like that and I don't know who would do that I wonder if the percentage of things, because adaptability is pretty high with animals if the natural habitat is left to its own state So I'd love them to have the opportunity to just deal with climate change in and of itself and eliminate the pollutants I mean, we really would be a better planet just to get rid of pesticides in general regardless of climate change What a shock it's the humans that are destroying the thing Oh, not shocking at all We are a virus We need another play Don't say it!