After watching the women weave the silk, they took us down the street to a woman's house where the silk worms are raised. The larvae are fed mulberry leaves until they spin their cocoons. One cocoon produces 800 meters (880 yards) of the very fine silk thread. If you click on the close up, it will enlarge to show the individual larvae. The people with Carol are Thai English teachers who are our co-teachers.
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Wow, I had no idea that this is how silk was made.
I always wondered a bit about this as well!
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