Silk Posted By : Imran Malik

Tag : Silk Noil
The every called the queen of textiles silk is most luxury andsupper textile fibers in all. Its also very expensive as bringsfrom cocoon of the silk worm and needs extra treatment to handleand process. In present days China is one of the leading silkproducers around the globe and other big countries are Italy, Japanand India.

Cocoon production completed in four steps, the egg, silk worm, thepupa and the moth. The farming of silk is called sericulture. Thesilk worm feed fresh mulberry leaves, after 35 days thecaterpillars are thousands times heavier and ready to startspinning a cocoon. One cocoon can produce 1000 to 2000 feet silkfiber.

The cocoons sent to factory by the farmer than the filature processstart. In this process sorted out by quality, sizes, or finerdefects then the silk unwound from the cocoons and they can befound in white, yellow or grayish colors. To produce a thread rawsilk the reeling process started in which silk filaments from thecocoons and merges them together.

Mostly silk filament is not usable for reeled silk, the extra silkcan be included the brushed end and damaged cocoons. For spinningsilk the shorter staple silk may be used in a way to fabrics suchas linen and cotton. To making the waste silk or silk noil thewaste material can be used from the spun silk.

Silk has many qualities some of them like silk is very strong inthe sense of tensile strength, it means that silk can hold up lotof pressure without breaking. As much as refined silk look likeshiny and smooth. Silk same like wool in way of protein fiber.

After research scientists have specified about 70 silk moths whichhave some economic value and very few have commercial value such asmulberry silk, muga silk, tasar silk, eri silk although the bulk ofsilk supply around the world comes from the silk moth Bombyz Mori,which is cultivated. Silk wild is also known as variety of silk.