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domesticated silk worms, together with their adult moth forms, meyers konversations-lexikon ( ) thai silk silk is a fine, soft and yet strong proteinaceous fiber that is naturally produced by certain arthropods , and with some forms, particularly that produced by the mulberry silkworm , bombyx mori , woven
, commercially reared silkworm pupae are killed before the adult moths emerge, typically by heat, such as boiling water, but the pupae also may be pierced with a needle rather than boiling. this allows the whole cocoon to be unraveled as one continuous thread and allows a much stronger cloth to be woven...
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