![](webfiles/DSCN4477.JPG.200.jpg) Overview of silk stages |
![](webfiles/DSCN4478.JPG.200.jpg) Silk worms eat the mulberry leaves |
![](webfiles/DSCN4480.JPG.200.jpg) Cocoons ready for picking |
![](webfiles/DSCN4483.JPG.200.jpg) Sorting the Cocoons |
![](webfiles/20071021_0066.JPG.200.jpg) Putting the single worm cocoons in a basket |
![](webfiles/20071021_0065.JPG.200.jpg) Getting them all ready for next step |
![](webfiles/20071021_0070.JPG.200.jpg) Tool to find end of silk thread |
![](webfiles/20071021_0069.JPG.200.jpg) Thread leaving cocoon going to reel |
![](webfiles/DSCN4486.JPG.200.jpg) Machine reeling the silk thread |
![](webfiles/20071021_0071.JPG.200.jpg) English translation of Chinese version |
![](webfiles/20071021_0072.JPG.200.jpg) Weaving machine..paper on left is the program for the pattern |
![](webfiles/DSCN4492.JPG.200.jpg) Another weaving machine |
![](webfiles/20071021_0073.JPG.200.jpg) Some of the silkworms couple up to make a coocoon |
![](webfiles/20071021_0074.JPG.200.jpg) The thread is too tangled, to separate so the cocoon is stretched after the worms are removed |
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![](webfiles/DSCN4494.JPG.200.jpg) After some 10 cocoons are put on the wire stretch rack, some women stretch it further |
![](webfiles/20071021_0075.JPG.200.jpg) and further |
![](webfiles/DSCN4496.JPG.200.jpg) Then the 10 cocoons becomes another layer of a silk comfortor |