FSN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wild Silk, Sericin, Sericulture
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With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Silk is a natural filament protein fibre. Silk comes from the cocoons of a caterpillar species called bombay murray - commonly known as silk worms. The queen of fibres / luxury textile. Each cocoon produces 1000 yards of silk. 110 cocoons to make 1 silk tie. China, india, japan - chief producers of silk. Off white, or cream wild silk is brown. Colour is determined by what the silkworm eats. Fibres are triangular shape and reflect like a prism. Sericin: water soluble protective gum that surrounds silk when extruded into a. Reeling silk: several filaments are gathered together wound on a real to make. Spun silk: staple silk is made from cocoons where the filament broke or the. Silk noil: spun, degummed silk, less expensive less durable, duller, fuzzier, pills,
