Author: I have personally visited the silk factory near the town of Dalat in Vietnam's mountains. There dovozyat few tourists go there and get a little bit problematic, but we did it with maman and did not regret the result of nerves and wasted money.
Generally there are three kinds of silk farm / factory. A. Where the larvae grow (there we have not reached). Two. Where to draw the threads.Here is a little woven fabric. Three. Where an unrealistic picture of embroidery silk. The latter - the untwisted position, the company XQ (in which even the site is in Russian), which guides those bashlyaet carry packs of tourists go there. We also wanted to get there, but not in time.
That's stores ready to pupate the larvae.Kura steal, but it rides the foreman.So, first take the girl sticks bundles of cocoons and put them in a saucepan of boiling water.

To cooked and larvae died. The smell there is a bit nauseating, like the smell of cooked meat, but specific. Later, when we bought the scarves, they were impregnated with this odor, and even after I washed it, it is still a little left bueee. Here are the boiled cocoons.Then they put in a long trough of water to pull the thread of each.I used to think that necessarily looking for the very tip of a thread in a cocoon, to be unwound. In fact, I realized that this is nonsense of course, simply tighten the surface of cobweb. Here is seen as a thread from each cocoon.Then she picks up the threads from several cocoons.
And then my second myth. I thought the thread from the cocoon - this is the final thread. This is not the case. Silk yarn spun from several micro-filaments. Number of threads determines the thickness of the finished yarn and cloth, respectively, the thickness of the future. You see a number of "Dusík"? So, it's not Dusík and yarn from cocoons. Girl finger leads to a bunch of threads that rapidly rotating pimpochkam and thread as it sucked in there and twist.And then two threads are merged into one and has already finished yarn is wound onto a spool.

Coils with ready-made filaments.



Reeled off the cocoons look like. There's already there, and translucent larvae.This is a photo I took last year in the COOP-market in the meat department. Then I had no idea that this "silk" larvae. I'm not sure 100 percent., But very similar, and the logic fits. Otherwise they have to do with the larvae spent?Yet there are several looms, where a simple weave fabric. At the top left of the machine can be seen hanging from a stack of punched cards, or as it's called.This card, which is encoded in the pattern of the fabric. Through each hole, and then skipped the thread on the machine they are clever move and magically get a pattern.



And on this machine do a rough silk burlap. Why do we not understand, can purely for decorative purposes.And on this one machine do the threads on the same principle as the others, but thicker and with nodes buklirovannye thread.
Of whom then do so, such scarves. It stank then they boiled meat.