I placed it inside the living room and placed the worms. The creatures are supposed ... and it takes between 25 to 32 days to make cocoons. The silk is harvested by boiling the cacoons in hot ...

They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more ...

After 45 days of munching and growing, the worms are ready ... Except, this is when silk producers butt in. The cocoons are steamed. This cleans them and kills the pupa inside.

Her worms eat 300 lb. of leaves daily, are kept in trays in the biggest rooms of the castle. The girls who gather the cocoons and reel off the silk fibres are sent abroad for training. Britain’s ...

After 45 days of munching and growing, the worms are ready ... Except, this is when silk producers butt in. The cocoons are steamed. This cleans them and kills the pupa inside.

Top quality demands that the cocoons be stain free. After 28 days, the worms are transferred into the cocooning area; wooden montages with spaces of about two by two inches per worm.

This method allows the extraction of silk without killing the silkworms. Usually, the cocoon carrying the live worm inside it is boiled in water before extracting the fibres. But in ‘Karuna Silk ...

Usually, once the worm has spun the cocoon, which is later used to make yarn for silk, it is dropped in water and killed so that the yarn is continuous. In the ahimsa variety, the silkworm is ...