silk thread is made from a fine,lustrous fiber produced by a silkworm when it forms a cocoon near the end of its life cycle.
A silkworm's sole diet is mulberry leaves.Silk production therefore commences with the growing of mulberry trees. JT cultivated mulberry trees on a 900-acre plantation at the upper end of a farming valley in Pak Thong Chai Province,about 150 miles Northeast of Bangkok. The 150 workers employed employed in this operation picked leaves from mulberry trees, conveyed them to a large rearing house,and fed them to silkworm placed there on trays stacked on long racks. Eggs produced by these silkworm were sold to approximately 1500 contract framing families located in a wild area surrounding the facility. Farmers raised the silkworms hatched from these eggs to the cocoon stage , then sold cocoons back to JT