How to make Thai silk

As in Thailand, in the province of Korat, produce silk threads? Silkworm, this nasty little caterpillar eats mulberry leaves or mulberry day and night so that tired of pop. We, the children, remember these bags of leaves on bikes this voracious worms dragged every day. In the end, having exhausted the people and utterly bloated, frizz caterpillar cocoons, shells which consist of a continuous silk filament length of 300-900 meters. Then the butterfly gnaws its way and knocks, and sometimes it roasted with cocoon - here's as lucky. Then cocoon untangle and start up in business. Woven from threads of all beauty. See how it is established in Thailand, a small factory for the production of silk.

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varschik this thread. He paints them so. One chan from his blue paint, the other - with the gold.



Another batch of threads waiting for their turn to cook.



After dyeing yarn dried



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Then harassed these "Babin" - and in the press.



But the little white.



And why this man reeling multicolored threads on some shuttle and walked with him back and forth, like a wound? Maybe they have a machine broke down, and it replaces?



The hard work of it - in the heat to produce silk.



Ready-made silk fabric looks



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