The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . worm is likethat of the whole moth family. The female, after comingfrom the cocoon, lives three or four days or a week, andthen lays four or five hundred small whitish or yellow gummy substance holds them to the leaves or otherobject on which they may be laid, and, when their foodis ready, they are hatched and at first are not over one-twelfth of an inch in length. They go through the variouschanges of moulting and casting their skin about four timesin tw
The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . worm is likethat of the whole moth family. The female, after comingfrom the cocoon, lives three or four days or a week, andthen lays four or five hundred small whitish or yellow gummy substance holds them to the leaves or otherobject on which they may be laid, and, when their foodis ready, they are hatched and at first are not over one-twelfth of an inch in length. They go through the variouschanges of moulting and casting their skin about four timesin twenty or fifty days. At their full growth they areabout three inches in length, and then they find a placeto spin their cocoon, finishing it in three to six days andgoing into the chrysalis. In twenty to forty days the insectemerges from the cocoon, and in a few days is ready to layher eggs. The cocoons are unravelled, reeled, carded, spun,doubled or redoubled, cleaned, and twisted into the threadfor weaving or sewing. The greatest producer of manufactured silk is probablyChina, though no complete statistics are available; and 4.
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