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Silk
Silk begins as a liquid secreted from two glands in the silkworm's head. While they are still in their pupal stage, the cocoons are placed in boiling water, which kills the silkworms and begins the process of unraveling the cocoons to produce silk thread. Approximately 15 silkworms are killed to make a gram of silk thread, and 10,000 are killed to make a silk sari. India is the second largest silk producer, after China.
Choose 'Eri silk' or 'Peace silk', which has been harvested after the moths have left the cocoons. Because the silkworm makes a hole in the cocoon in order to emerge, the strand is no longer unbroken, resulting in shorter fibers, so the silk is spun rather than reeled.
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