Thread by thread

The weaving of silk turns out to be a very intricate process. It generally starts out with a black silk work egg hatching. Over the next month the silk work eats a lot of leaves and is constantly growing. They don't excrete anything so when the silk worms start to make their cocoon they are actually regurgitating what they had eaten over the past month. They regurgitated material turns out to be a 1 meter long piece of silk thread. The caterpillar is then killed inside its own cocoon so that the moth doesn't create a hole in its own cocoon. If it did that the. The silk weavers would end up with a bunch of really short silk threads. The silk weavers then unravel the thread. The o e thread that they unravel is then combined with 4-5 other threads to make a much thicker thread that won't break easily. The thread is then dyed to create a specific color and used to create a design on a panel of silks, which depending on what kind of silk that you want can become expensive.