Silkworm secretes a protein like substance through its head to form the cocoon when it ready to become a pupa. The following points highlight the nine main processes involved in production of silk.

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Together the two nations account for about 95 of the world s silk production.

Steps in silk production. Attached to a secure frame or tree the silkworm will begin spinning its silk cocoon by rotating its body in a figure 8 movement around 300 000 times a process which takes around 3 to 8 days. The secret to silk production is the tiny creature known as the silkworm which is the caterpillar of the silk moth bombyx mori. China is the largest producer of silk followed by india.

Reel silk threads from several cocoons together on a wooden spindle into a uniform strand of raw silk. Silk worm begins life as an egg and then it becomes a silk worm pupa and finally a moth. Silk fiber is one of the strongest natural fibers available in filament form.

This is a wild creature and its silk filament is about three times heavier than that. The caterpillars then spend around six weeks fattening up on a diet of mulberry leaves before spinning their cocoons. Dye silk thread in a dye bath.

More mulberry silk produced by the silkworm b. It feeds solely on the leaves of mulberry trees. Only one other species of moth the antheraea mylitta also produces silk fiber.

Drying stifling 2 storage 3 sorting 4 cooking 5 deflossing brushing 6 reeling 7 chemical processing of raw silk 8 re reeling 9 lacing and skeining. Mori is produced and consumed worldwide than any other type of silk. Female silkmoths lay around 300 to 500 eggs at a time.

Cocoon is treated with hot air steam or boiling water. Silk comes from the larvae or caterpillars of the silkmoth. These eggs are incubated until they hatch and caterpillars emerge.