Question

How is silk fibre obtained from the cocoon?

Answer 1

Silk fibre from the cocoon:

1. Cocoon: It is a protective covering or a silky covering formed by an insect to shelter themselves while they grow.
2. These are first collected and kept either under the sun, boiled, or exposed to steam.
3. This leads to rating out the silk fibres. The process by which silk thread is separated from the cocoon is known as reeling the silk.
4. Reeling is carried out with special machines, which leads to the unwinding of the threads or fibres of silk from the cocoon and the silk fibres are then spun into silk threads, which are woven into the silk cloth by weavers.
5. Then, the spinning of silk fibres into threads is done.
6. The silk fibres are then spun into silk threads, which are woven into the silk cloth by weavers.