1. Chinese Silk Factory

2. The stages in a silkworm’s life.

3. Cocoon sizes

4. Plants the silkworms eat.

5. Silkworms and the special leaves they eat.

6. The moths that lay the silkworm eggs.

7. The cocoons were attached to bamboo strips.

8. The silkworms build their cocoons close together.

9. The cocoons fall to conveyer belts where they are sorted.

10. The sorting station.

11. They separate single cocoons from doubles.

12. Cocoon Cooking

13. Cocoon cooking machines

14. Silk Reeling

15. Silk reeling machine

16. The cocoons float by and the workers pull a string from each cocoon.

17. The remains of the pupa are removed.

18. Automatic silk reeling

19. The automatic reeler doesn’t need the workers to grab the threads.

20. Creating a spool of silk.

21. 8-10 cocoons are needed to make the correct thickness for each thread.

22. The silk thread is in rolls at the top of the machine.

23. The workers make sure everything runs smoothly.

24. The silk thread is collected into larger spools.

25. Re-reeling

26. Re-reeling machine

27. Only 5 meters of fabric can be woven every day.

28. This is where the weaving is done.

29. Silk material is woven from hundreds of threads.

30. Weaving machine

31. Stretching the double cocoons.

32. Adding layer on top of layer.