2013年9月16日 · Educational Video : Unwinding silk Cocoons

The unusable silk at the center of the cocoon is called the "cradle" - when the cocoon runs out of good thread and the cradle is all that's left, I call that "cradled out." When the silk is all reeled on, it's time to re-reel.

2018年3月5日 · If you either unwind the silk ( a long and slow process) or carefully cut the cocoon open the silkworm (pupae) will not die. You can then put them into uncooked oats to keep them warm. You can then see them through the brown chrysalis and they wiggle if you touch them.

So if you just happen to have some silkworm cocoons, and you want an easy (lazy) way of making a rough spun silk yarn, you can try this. Also, the technique I'm using is, (I think) a good way to get thread out of found wild silk cocoons where the moths may have already emerged.

2020年5月15日 · The finest and most durable silk (for example, silk thread used in embroideries or the silk satin used in the clothing of historical Chinese royalty) is produced by locating the loose end of the silk filament that makes up the cocoon and literally unwinding the entire cocoon onto a …

Silk reeling is the process of unwinding raw silk filaments from silkworm cocoons and combining them to form a single, continuous thread suitable for weaving. This intricate process is crucial to the silk industry, transforming the seemingly fragile …

2017年1月3日 · Stifling: To prevent the moths from emerging, the cocoons are subjected to heat, typically through steaming or hot air drying. This process also kills the pupae inside. Reeling: The next step is to unwind the silk filaments from the cocoons.

The silk worm makes one long continuous strand of silk for their cocoon. If you let them mature fully they will then break out of the cocoon ruining that beautiful silk strand. Therefore they need to be boiled alive in that cocoon so that we can harvest the silk.

2023年12月13日 · Reeling is the process of unwinding the silk filaments from the cocoons and combining them to form a single continuous thread. This is done using a reeling machine, which gently pulls the filaments from multiple cocoons and twists them together to create a …

2023年5月15日 · Reeling is a technique for extracting the silk filaments from cocoons to weave them together to create compact, untwisted, and degummed silk thread. To reel raw silk, you have to find the right end of the cocoon filament and join a few ends together. A reeling machine is used to unwind the silk filament from the cocoon.