step 1: raising silkworms and harvesting cocoons
silkworms are really not worms at all. Silk worms are the larvae of ‘bombyx mori’ moths and silkworms are actually domesticated insects. Native to china, the silkworm does not longer exist in the wild, after so many centuries of inbreeding the silkworm is incapable of flight, mates quickly after emerging from its crysalis, and dies a day or so after laying its eggs. Design boom illustrates the several stages of sericulture, which begins with hatching silkworm eggs.