Making silk

This is unwinding the fibre from the cocoon. The silk worms live for a few weeks then make a cocoon of silk around themselves that is a 400m continuous thread. The threads are put in hot water and they unravel. The worker gathers up the invidual threads to make one thread that is wound on to the frame. The outer cocoon contains raw silk. The inner part is paler and the fibre is thinner and this becomes fine silk. The silk is bleached, dyed and then woven on a loom.