Once back in Hoi An, we went to a shop that has silk worms on display. They showed us the complete process from the starting worms to the actual retreiving of the silk. Our guide told us that the silkworm isn't really a worm, it is a caterpillar.
The woman on the floor is separating the worms from their waste and mixing them in with new and clean food.
As the worms get larger, they put them on a screen so they can produce the cocoons from which the silk threads are extracted.
The last stage is the spinning of the silk from the cocoons gathered the screens. Each cocoon offers as much as 600 metres of silk thread.
The store also had women working with other fabrics, making rugs and material for shirts.
Another tour completed on the recommendation of our "tour guides". Well done!
1 comment:
YES!! The silk worms...how can you tell Biology was my favourite subject. We thought it was fascinating. Another thing we noticed was the air conditioning was ON only in the shop part where one could purchase fabric & design your clothing- a coincidence? I think not.
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