How is silk obtained?
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Silk is obtained from the cacoon of the silkworm . Silkworm are fed on the leaves of the mulberry trees. Each worm spins a continuous thread up to 800 metre long to make a cocoon. The cocoon is boiled in water to kill the silkworm alive and then unwound to get silkfibre
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the protein fibre of silk is composed mainly by fibroin and is produced by certain insect larvae to form coocon. the best known silk is obtained from the cocoons of the larvae
of the mulberry silworm.
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