A lot of silk, hard work for all

A lot of silk, hard work for all The production of silk is not as easy as it seems. We will examine what some, including a look at the mass production, which is typical in some of the most productive countries such as Japan, China and Thailand.Silk production is done in stages. The first step is the hatching of eggs of silkworms in a controlled environment. This is usually done in a box of aluminum. The fields to check to ensure that they are free from diseases. The female silkworm usually provides about 300 to 400 eggs at a time. In an area the size of a piece of typing paper around 50 months can lay over 20,000 eggs at once. Each of these eggs is about as big as a pin and almost undetectable to the naked eye. After spawning the female dies almost immediately. The males live only for a short period of time after this.The Eggs are then tested for the disease. If they are disease free in a controlled environment. The eggs are attached to a flat surface with a substance that is provided by women. The larvae hatch from eggs in about 10 days and are about half a centimeter in length. After the hatching of larvae, which are in a layer of gauze. Then they are fed large amounts of timber for the leaves of mulberry. During this period will help to clarify the skin, are four times during the process. Sometimes the larvae feed on orange juice or salad. The larvae, which fed the leaves of mulberry, are the ones who are the best silk. Each larva can eat more than 50,000 times its size in larvae food.After reached the maximum length, about 7.5 centimeters, it stops eating. This takes about four to six weeks. Once this happens, the color changes and submit to a kind of object, like a frame, a subsidiary, branch or bush. Once connected, they spin their silk. This is true for about three to eight days.This when the hard work of silkworms is located in the next few days, the silkworm produces a blade of a figure eight motion over 300,000 times in which they are actually building a cocoon. This is a non-stop. The cocoon is because that is when the silkworm plans to live, what stage during its Chrysalis. During this phase of sleep and raises their skin. During this phase, which lasts about sixteen days, the silkworm begins the next process of transformation into a moth. The problem for producers of silk, is when the doll is alive, which secrete a substance, the destruction of the cocoon, thus ruining the silk threads. To avoid this, the doll killed. This is why these activists have a problem with the processes truth is that the share of silk that is actually stored in this process is very small. Thousands of dolls die. The jouey takes about 80 kg of cocoons of only 1 kg of raw silk.   -------------------------------------------------- -----   Michael Russell   Your independent guide to silk   -------------------------------------------------- -----