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 Overview of silk stages |
 Silk worms eat the mulberry leaves |
 Cocoons ready for picking |
 Sorting the Cocoons |
 Putting the single worm cocoons in a basket |
 Getting them all ready for next step |
 Tool to find end of silk thread |
 Thread leaving cocoon going to reel |
 Machine reeling the silk thread |
 English translation of Chinese version |
 Weaving machine..paper on left is the program for the pattern |
 Another weaving machine |
 Some of the silkworms couple up to make a coocoon |
 The thread is too tangled, to separate so the cocoon is stretched after the worms are removed |
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 After some 10 cocoons are put on the wire stretch rack, some women stretch it further |
 and further |
 Then the 10 cocoons becomes another layer of a silk comfortor |