At 02:52 AM 14/04/2011, Jane Partridge wrote:
Whilst the "ethical grounds" mentioned for not using silk are probably due to the method of boiling the cocoons (thus killing the silkworm) in order to wind silk from them,
- nothing is gone to waste! These dead pupae are then processed into the "rice paper", so called because Westerners probably wouldn't eat it if they knew what it was! [Saw that on a silk making video].
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