In a message dated 8/7/2005 2:12:13 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Commercial silk farmers do kill the larvae so that the cocoons can be reeled
(unwound). I don't much care for the thought of that, either. (OTOH, I'm
not about to stop buying silk.) However, in my own
i was curious how small of a bin can you keep and still grow them.
also what is the total amount of silk you recieve per batch and how
often in the year can you regrow them.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/7/2005 2:12:13 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a message dated 8/7/2005 9:20:29 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ricki, I am in my second season of raising silkworms. I am a handspinner.
And I intend to use the silk from them. I would be interested in knowing
why it is considered cruelty to animals. I guess when
Ricki writes:
Hmm - I'm wracking my brain trying to remember where I heard that it was
cruelty to animals, but it was in the context of comparing it to wool and
cotton, whose host lives on.
Commercial silk farmers do kill the larvae so that the cocoons can be reeled
(unwound). I don't much
i think it is when they kill the worm before it comes out of the
caccoon so they can have the silk unbroken that it is considered cruel.
it is supposed to be stronger that way. i have never bought either
kind of silk fiber, but they sell them both in most fiber stores.
--- BrambleLane [EMAIL
