Garment Making Process at a Silk Worm Farm (1966) | Vintage Fashions
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- The process of making silk garments is shown from the worms eating Mulberry leaves to the ultimate finished product.
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The wife of the "Yellow" Emperor of China first discovered silk after a cocoon from Mulberry Tree fell into her tea and began unraveling itself.
Let's give thanks to the Chinese Empress for bringing this exquisite yet horrific tradition of silk weaving to all future generations. Even though the Chinese wanted to keep it all a secret and executed anyone that attempted to smuggle their precious silkworm cocoons outside of the country.
I always thought they let the moths hatch to make more silkworms and use the hatched cocoon. I guess time is money.
The reason they don't allow that, is because the moth chews its way out of the cocoon, breaking the silk. Killing the worm during its metamorphosis stage allows them to unwind the entire cocoon as a single, very long strand.
if the moth is allowed to hatch it destroys the silk thread...
very cool video I'm doing a report
Very interesting process, it's amazing it was developed centuries ago.
Fantastic video, too bad it was cut off half way.
R.I.P silkworms thank you for the soft jackets
Poor caterpillars. They will never get their wings.
I was shocked to see that the worms are boiled alive for their silk. At least with other animals, they're used in their entirety. But, at the same time, these are insects, and I have no qualms about killing bugs. It's just a bit shocking to see this...
And what is leather and suede? If people are going to get uppitty about fur, they should pay attention to what their shoes are made of... There are ways to have ethical fur too. If the silkworm emerges from its cocoon before it's processed then it wouldn't get killed.
those girls making the silk have nice noses
Fantastiche le tizie del video: cotonatissime, non perdono mai il loro aplomb, neanche quando danno da mangiare ai bruchi. Che poi quella fatta vedere nel video sia "l'industria serica", con loro che, strafighe, raccolgono le foglie di quattro piantine stitiche in serra per darle da mangiare a quattro cagnotti, anche no... Pura fantascienza.
We also have silkworms but we don't eat. But sometimes my mom eat but I don't feel good to eat.
To all the people complaining because of the dead worms... they're worms. Deal with it. You've more than likely used something made out of silk before, so stop using all silk if it really upsets you that much.
It's ridiculously easy to avoid all silk. Just read the label before buying.
And it's not death that is bad per se - it's *being boiled alive*.
Which is probably upsetting for you, but the experience of being boiled to death of an insect pupa (in a hibernation-like state) is necessarily going to be very different from that of a mammal (with our highly-ennervated skins and well-protected core systems.) For a small insect, the heat would penetrate and kill the nervous system rather quickly. I'm not sure that there would be any more humane alternative method of killing a pupa, or how we would know.
Robert Miles Of course it's different - nobody is saying it's going to be the same. But there's still a non-zero chance that they will suffer pain from heat. Your last statement is a false dichotomy - we don't have to pick between more humane and less humane methods of killing silk worms. We can just stop using silk, and stop breeding them and killing them in the first place.
Yes, we could stop using silk. However, are there alternative methods of creating clothing that doesn't involve the killing of large numbers of insects? The cultivation of cotton certainly does that.
Good point Robert Balder. I'm not aware of any methods that are completely cruelty free, so it's just a matter of choosing the lesser evil. I wonder if Brian Tomasik has anything to say about this. He has written quite extensively about insect welfare and wild animal suffering. (I have no idea how the tagging system works here; hopefully he gets a notification).
A silk worms most dreaded nightmare.
This is very cruel and selfish behavior in human. They will do anything for money.
They don’t care how painful and death to the silkworm as long as they make profits out of them.
Imagine the pain and suffering the silkworms have to endure in the broiling hot pot before they died.
It must feel liked hell for them especially it probably takes long for them to die, is liked a cruel and
inhumane punishment which they don’t deserve and this is all just for fashion.
Since I know how horrible the silkworms have to go through I will never wear or buy any silk products
anymore .............. The shortest explanation of karma that I
know is: 'you get what you give'. In other words; whatever you do intentionally to others, a similar
thing will happen to yourself in the future. Causing suffering to others will cause suffering to
ourselves, causing happiness to others will result in happiness for
oneself.
Actually it's not as painful. It has no bones to be crushed, no extra organs attached to a nervous system, so it's not really painful
The worms can't feel pain as it is an invertebrates.
those girls were hot!!!! they don't make em like that anymore
Thats because of the chemicals in tap water , hormones in food and GMO foods. They are feminizing men and masculinizing women to make them sterile.
Plutonium2222 keep eating your gmos and watch your genes change.
Plutonium2222 That's what gmos do to you they change your dna.
its a fucking bug.. relax bro
There is an alternative to killing the moth to get the silk, but unfortunately survival has basically been bred out of the moth. It either boils alive or is born blind and flightless to die on its own. Not much of a choice, sadly. See Earth Diva's "The Short and Sad Life of a Silkworm" article for more info.
No silk, no parachutes.
MASSACRE
everyone is complaining about boiling them alive. you do realize that once they hatch, they mate an then die. their whole existence is useless except for the silk and reptiles in captivity. they are the one animal on the food chain that i would say serves no purpose. also silk moths don't have mouths to eat.... so it really doesn't matter that they died before hatching
and if you are one of the people who do care and wan't "cruelty-free" silk, just get the far more expensive wild silk
Ah! I'll be sure to hunt down those in Civ 5
then you wounder why we dont breed lions tigers and rinos for killing and harvest. Well shit when can we start breeding humans for harvest? ive always wanted to try a longpig chop.
They always make stockings in the past from silk.
I felt so sorry for the cute, chubby little cocoons when I first saw them burned alive at a silk factory in China :-( !!
interesting definition of immature mind.
What happens the catapillar?
+Mya MacBean dead
boiled live
That blonde chick is hot!
they're not cute little mammals, so most people won't care
What about the silkworm/silkmoth inside the cocoons? Do they get out before their silk is taken?
It's still inside the cocoon, it gets boiled alive.
chimeforest he means 'it gets killed alive'.
+Yyy Eee Ooo Aaa Uuu If you are being killed, how is it not killed alive?
The slik worms are still in there! Ah!
question to all the people who care about the silk worms...do u eat meat? swat fly's or...wait for it...seafood? if anything feel sorry for turtles...u know...turtle soup..
WTF THE WORMS IN THE DRESS EWWW
Murderers! :(
+Jack Xin Yes Jack humans are top of the food chain. we eat other animals get the fuck over it.
Fascinating!!
cool story bro..
Are they extinct or are they still alive?
they are extinct in the wild but alive in captivity. people have kept these creature for so long that they are unable to fly long distances. they also hatch from their cocoon without mouths, so they mate and then slowly starve to death.
Do they die
Jyoarya 777 yes
Are they still in the cocoons when they boil them? D:
unfortunately yes, but there is such a thing as cruelty-free silk where they wait until the worms hatch
LoveDayandAge In a way you are correct, but what happens to the silkworm after it hatches? It can't eat, and it's eyes and wings are useless. All it can do is breed and die. If it breeds, each female can lay between 300 and 1000 eggs. Many of these eggs are disposed of because there isn't enough food for all of them to eat. Especially if you tried to hatch every single egg each year.
This is how humanity has bred them.
chimeforest
why can't it eat ? :*(
edit: alright looked it up, they have no mouths
Yeah, the whole thing is pretty sad =(
chimeforest
So...it's better to generally avoid silk?
wait is all silk made of silk worms?
Kevin The Amazing yes
very interesting !
LADY HART WHO?!
Disgusting
The video was eye-opening. They glossed over the fact that the caterpillars die. I see vacated silk cocoons where I live quite often, and am thinking of just grabbing those and trying to weave my own silk. That's what I have to research next!
Not to mention the enormous number of bugs intentionally killed during the cultivation of plant produce, even in organic farming. Glass houses.
That's insane!
So much work.
OI wait aminute....... what about the worms still inside the silk ?.