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Though the most famous silk producers in the world considered to be China and Japan, Thailand has a big part in the industry as well, mainly due to the early efforts (back in the 60s) of Jim Thompson, American businessman, who was the first one to introduce Thai silk to the international market. Jim Thompson silk industry still stays the leading silk trademark in Thailand, but along with it you can frequently see independent silk villages spread around the country producing the silk on the macro and micro level and delivering its processing secrets to us.
So here we were at the silk village in Chiang Mai watching and learning the fascinating stuff from the women dressed in traditional sarongs like back in a days....
Silk production turned to be a very scrupulous and complex task, evolving multiple stages of growing and breeding the worms, preparing and extracting fibers, washing, drying, twisting and finally creating.. Most of it is a human hand work, excluding technology or electric machinery.
So here it is, the SILK WORM, which after being emerged from the egg, feeds from the mulberry tree leaves:
So here we were at the silk village in Chiang Mai watching and learning the fascinating stuff from the women dressed in traditional sarongs like back in a days....
Silk production turned to be a very scrupulous and complex task, evolving multiple stages of growing and breeding the worms, preparing and extracting fibers, washing, drying, twisting and finally creating.. Most of it is a human hand work, excluding technology or electric machinery.
So here it is, the SILK WORM, which after being emerged from the egg, feeds from the mulberry tree leaves:
