The every called the queen of textiles silk is most luxury and supper textile fibers in all. It’s also very expensive as brings from cocoon of the silk worm and needs extra treatment to handle and process. In present days China is one of the leading silk producers around the globe and other big countries are Italy, Japan and India.

Cocoon production completed in four steps, the egg, silk worm, the pupa and the moth. The farming of silk is called sericulture. The silk worm feed fresh mulberry leaves, after 35 days the caterpillars are thousands times heavier and ready to start spinning a cocoon. One cocoon can produce 1000 to 2000 feet silk fiber.

The cocoons sent to factory by the farmer than the filature process start. In this process sorted out by quality, sizes, or finer defects then the silk unwound from the cocoons and they can be found in white, yellow or grayish colors. To produce a thread raw silk the reeling process started in which silk filaments from the cocoons and merges them together.

Mostly silk filament is not usable for reeled silk, the extra silk can be included the brushed end and damaged cocoons. For spinning silk the shorter staple silk may be used in a way to fabrics such as linen and cotton. To making the waste silk or silk noil the waste material can be used from the spun silk.

Silk has many qualities some of them like silk is very strong in the sense of tensile strength, it means that silk can hold up lot of pressure without breaking. As much as refined silk look like shiny and smooth. Silk same like wool in way of protein fiber.

After research scientists have specified about 70 silk moths which have some economic value and very few have commercial value such as mulberry silk, muga silk, tasar silk, eri silk although the bulk of silk supply around the world comes from the silk moth Bombyz Mori, which is cultivated. Silk wild is also known as variety of silk.

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