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olga55 [171]
3 years ago
8

How is silk extracted from cocoons?​

Biology
1 answer:
Firlakuza [10]3 years ago
4 0
The process of silk production is known as sericulture. ... 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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