Did you know that silk was discovered by accident? A silk cocoon had accidentally fallen into a cup of hot tea. A Chinese Empress Hsi-Ling-Shih pulled the threads and discovered silk.
This material, a natural stock which is naturally the secretion from the mouth of a moth caterpillar. The hungry silkworm is raised today on extra beds. Today scientists have produced a extra synthetic diet that is enriched with all the nutritious that the moth needs. The sharp thing about these moths after domesticating them for thousands of years is that they have a total lack of inclination to wander far - unlike other caterpillars plus the moth's inability to fly. These moth caterpillars are produced all year long instead of relying on the yearly crop of mulberry leaves.
People marvel at the fact that you can get two kilometers of silk thread from just one silk cocoon. The methods of twisting, reeling and weaving of the silk have hardly changed since the earliest times. And there has been a revival of silk output in Western Europe in up-to-date years.
The marriage of Princess Diana as well as the Duchess of York have revived the interest in silk. Recalling the tradition among the monarchy of Henry I in the 12th century who wore fine silks. And the ceremonial dresses of the archbishops and bishops have been made from local silks; mulberry trees were often grown within the ecclesiastical walls of abbeys and monasteries.
More recently silk was used in the manufacture of parachutes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and other silk went into precision instruments in the Royal Greenwich Observatories throughout the world. Another advantage to the commerce are the Jacquard loom with its punched cards, which was the forerunner of the computer and that in the early part of the 20th century we have silk to thank for experiments in generic engineering.
Some intelligent Facts About Silk