SC - Florilegium -Furs and OT

[KallipygosRed@aol.com]

>Just a small point...if you are wearing real silk, then you are 
>harming the little silkworm that is trying to spin a cocoon to do 
>it's metamorphosis into the little butterfly that is it's reward for 
>having to be a worm...grin
>
>Just thought I'd mention it...stir, stir, stir...L
>
>Gyric

In order to get the fine type of silk that is most desirable, the 
little wormies are boiled alive in their shells, errr, cocoons.

But there are several kinds of silk that at least traditionally were 
made from broken cocoons after the larvae had hatched. It has to be 
spun because, rather than one long continuous filament, it is many 
shorter strands. I believe tussah was one of these. Also wild silks 
rather than "domesticated" silk have beige rather than white the 
filaments.

So, one can wear silk and still not kill.

Oh, those cute little silk worms <VBG> Cutchie, cutchie coo.

Anahita