a natural fiber
Natural. It is the fiber made by the silkworm to surround the cocoon of the silk worm larva.
Yes silk is expensive.
The most expensive fiber material is vicuña wool, which comes from the rare and wild vicuña animal found in the Andes region of South America. Vicuña wool is highly prized for its softness, warmth, and rarity, making it one of the most luxurious and expensive fiber materials in the world.
Vicuña fibre , Shahtoosh , cashmere ( Pashmina ,Shahmina ) are the most expensive fibre in the world , they are not silk ( they are wool ) but way more sumptuous , silky , delicate then any type of silk or any fibre .
Silk farmers -- businesses involved in the care, feeding and tending of domesticated silk worms which produce the commercial silk fibre -- are responsible for their environmental impact.
Silk is the material produced by the silk worm to make its cocoon. The Chinese were the first to produce silk. The knowledge of doing it was kept as a big secret because silk was very expensive and the people who sold it got very rich.
It is a natural fiber made from maggots.
Silk, rayon and wool are all fibres.
cotton is a natural fiber where as silk is not
No. Silkworms produce silk. Quokkas are marsupials, and small members of the kangaroo family. No marsupials produce silk, or any secretions that can be used to make silk.
no disadvantages