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	[[File:Silkworms02.jpg\|500px\|thumb\|right\|Cocoons: The cocoon is made of a thread of raw silk from 300 to about 900 m (1,000 to 3,000 ft) long. The fibers are very fine and lustrous, about 10 μm (0.0004 in) in diameter. About 2,000 to 3,000 cocoons are required to make a pound of silk (0.4 kg). At least 70 million pounds of raw silk are produced each year, requiring nearly 10 billion pounds of cocoons.]]		[[File:Silkworms02.jpg\|500px\|thumb\|right\|Cocoons: The cocoon is made of a thread of raw silk from 300 to about 900 m (1,000 to 3,000 ft) long. The fibers are very fine and lustrous, about 10 μm (0.0004 in) in diameter. About 2,000 to 3,000 cocoons are required to make a pound of silk (0.4 kg). At least 70 million pounds of raw silk are produced each year, requiring nearly 10 billion pounds of cocoons.]]

			The entire production process of silk can be divided into several steps which are typically handled by different entities. Extracting raw silk starts by cultivating the silkworms on mulberry leaves. Once the worms start pupating in their cocoons, these are dissolved in boiling water in order for individual long fibres to be extracted and fed into the spinning reel.

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[[File:Silkworms01.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Silkworms and their favorite food, mulberry leaves.]]

[[File:Silkworms02.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Cocoons: The cocoon is made of a thread of raw silk from 300 to about 900 m (1,000 to 3,000 ft) long. The fibers are very fine and lustrous, about 10 μm (0.0004 in) in diameter. About 2,000 to 3,000 cocoons are required to make a pound of silk (0.4 kg). At least 70 million pounds of raw silk are produced each year, requiring nearly 10 billion pounds of cocoons.]]

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==Links==
* OSE Wiki [[Mulberry]]
* Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk Silk] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyx_mori "Bombyx mori"]
* Appropedia [http://www.appropedia.org/Silk_Worm_Raising "Silk Worm Raising"]

[[Category:Food and Agriculture]]
[[Category:Materials]]