Economy
Why silk production starts with boiling cocoons
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That luxurious, smooth fabric draped over high-end furniture has a seriously grim origin story. To extract the continuous thread required for premium silk, the silkworm cocoon must be submerged in boiling liquid before the moth can chew its way out and ruin the strand. Pure luxury apparel is entirely dependent on interrupting insect metamorphosis in the most dramatic way possible.
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