Transcript Chinese Silk Factory

Chinese Silk Factory
The stages in a silkworm’s life.
Cocoon sizes
Plants the silkworms eat.
Silkworms and the special leaves they eat.
The moths that lay the silkworm eggs.
The cocoons were attached to bamboo strips.
The silkworms build their cocoons close together.
The cocoons fall to conveyer belts where they are
sorted.
The sorting station.
They separate single cocoons from doubles.
Cocoon Cooking
Cocoon cooking machines
Silk Reeling
Silk reeling machine
The cocoons float by and the workers pull a string from
each cocoon.
The remains of the pupa are removed.
Automatic silk reeling
The automatic reeler doesn’t need the workers to grab
the threads.
Creating a spool of silk.
8-10 cocoons are needed to make the correct thickness
for each thread.
The silk thread is in rolls at the top of the machine.
The workers make sure everything runs smoothly.
The silk thread is collected into larger spools.
Re-reeling
Re-reeling machine
Only 5 meters of fabric can be woven every day.
This is where the weaving is done.
Silk material is woven from hundreds of threads.
Weaving machine
Stretching the double cocoons.
Adding layer on top of layer.