tiabunna's photos with the keyword: silk

This woman was busily spinning silk. There was clearly a lot of skill involved in getting the results with this basic equipment. The PiP shows some skeins of silk in the silk shop where my earlier Silk #1 images were taken.

A young lady in Laos dyeing silk thread. The PiPs show silk cocoons being heated in water and silkworm moths. The silkworms encase themselves in a cocoon of silk thread and, to remove it, the cocoon needs to be heated in water. Long ago, when I was a kid, many of us used to raise silkworms and remove the thread just this way - I suspect few kids do it now that electronic games are here!

The portable cocoon home of a Saunders Case Moth (or Elongatus metura should you prefer the scientific name). These are found through eastern Australia and spend most of their lives in these silk cocoons enhanced with twigs. A second shot in the note gives an idea of the size of the cocoon. Explored.