spinning silk from a web
spinning silk from a web
Silk is made by insects. Spiders are known for their silk-spinning abilities, but it is the silk spun from moths that provide the highest-quality silk.
Silk was first made by the Chinese about 4000 years ago from the cocoon of the silkworm moth. Silk spinners needed a method to deal with the tough, long silk threads. This is why the spinning wheel was so important in China.
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spinning mills definitely has good scope in south india..especially for cotton and silk.
You can blend silk with wool when spinning yarn, without reaction.
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The legend of how silk making began credits Emperor Huang Di with inventing how to raise silkworms and how to spin the silk onto cloth.
Silk is made from cocoons of the silkworm. If some other cloth is made from spinning some other cocoon, it would also be called silk with a modifier.
Any web-spinning spider can do it, it is a property of spider silk. When it is said that spider silk is stronger than steel, this does not mean the webs themselves as is. It means that if you had enough spider silk to weave into the same thickness as a steel cable, the spider silk would have a tensile strength five times greater.