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A couple of thousand years ago, China closely guarded the secret of how to make silk and raise silkworms. The reason was simple. Silk made up most of the wealth of China. They didn’t want others to find out and start producing silk. Today, you can just watch a YouTube video how silk is made.
The process of silk production is known as sericulture. It involves extracting raw silk by cultivating the silkworms on mulberry leaves. Once they start pupating in their cocoons, they are dissolved in boiling water. These allows us to extract individual long fibers and add them to the spinning reel.
Some people find silk production a cruel process. Tens of millions of silk moths are boiled alive every year.
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- Package includes: You will get a lifecycle of silkworm specimens with instructions, enough to meet your daily needs, perfect for fans of taxidermy animals, oddities, and wet specimens.
- Suitable size: Each taxidermy real silkworm specimens are about 3.7 x 3.7 x 0.8 inches, easy to carry and store, and can show the lifecycle details of the dragonfly specimen more clearly without a magnifying glass.
- Quality transparent resin material: Lifecycle of silkworm collection is made of quality transparent resin material, safe and unbreakable, portable and lightweight, and not easily breakable or deformable
- Suitable for Study: To help understand the lifecycle structural details of the silkworm, we replicate the appearance of the silkworm as much as possible, making it perfect for fans of taxidermy animals
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