We visited Angkor Silk farm today and took a tour. As a side note, we have seen silk worms in the frozen section of grocery stores and also as a snack sold on the street. Our driver from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap stopped and bought some. We tried them. They taste like boiled peanuts with a sour filling.
These are mulberry trees from all around the world. The silk worms eat the leaves.
The short life of the silk worm.
Silk Worms eating mulberry leaves.
The buildings where the silk worms lived were protected from ants by little moats around all points touching the ground.
To prevent most of the silk worms from completing its life cycle, they are put into the sun.
Putting the cocoons in boiling water to extract the silk thread.
Very tedious process of tying the pattern into the silk. This could be done many times. Tie the plastics strings around the silk, die, and repeat process.
Lots of manual labor involved here
Simple designs go pretty fast, more complicated designs are pretty slow.
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